Jupiter Jones - Zoom Launch of The Hyena's Daughter - Sat August 1st 8pm BST (3pm EST)

Come and join us to launch Jupiter Jones's Weatherglass Novella Prize winner, The Hyena's Daughter, on Zoom on Saturday, August 1st at 8pm BST and 3pm EST. Fiona will be reading from the novella, and host Debbi Voisey will be interviewing her, and inviting questions from the audience.

This is what Weatherglass judge Ali Smith had to say about The Hyena's Daughter:

THE HYENA’S DAUGHTER tells the far-too-untold story of a nineteenth-century sisterhood, that of the daughters of Mary Wollstonecraft: Fanny Imlay and Mary Shelley, the famed writers of Frankenstein, plus their stepsister Claire Clairmont. Are they the three graces? The fates? They’re women, as alive and breathing and rebellious and analytical as you and me, and well aware and critical of the hemmed-in nature they’re expected to accept as women of their time, a time of “a new way of thinking, a new-world independence, a revolutionary world.” 

It features their connection to Percy Bysshe Shelley – “how could we not love him, with his lofty ethics and words that flew like birds?” – and many of the other contemporary poets and thinkers of the time. Pacy and assured, it turns its history to life from fragment to sensuous fragment. If the dead brought to life is to be Mary Shelley’s theme, this novella asks what the real source of life spirit is, the vital spark. This book, full of detail and richesse, is a piece of vitality itself.

Order from any of these places by clicking the links here:

The Hyena's Daughter — Weatherglass Books (the publisher)

The Hyena's Daughter by Jupiter Jones | Waterstones

The Hyena's Daughter: Amazon.co.uk: Jupiter Jones: 9781068176609: Books