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She must write her rage ... to win her war. The engrossing and propulsive historical fiction debut from a talented new writer, for readers of Geraldine Brooks' Year of Wonders, Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet, Lauren Groff's Matrix, Robyn Cadwallader's The Anchoress, Pip Williams's The Dictionary of Lost Words.
Praise:
'A dazzling debut. Marvellous.' Robyn Mundy, Cold Coast
'A remarkable feat of storytelling. I wept as I read, in recognition of bravery, grief and longing' Michelle Tom, Ten Thousand Aftershocks
'Deft, vivid, intimate story-telling which reels us into a past that casts a bright, penetrating light' Sally Colin-James, One Illumined Thread
'I sank into this novel, knowing myself in sure hands. With meticulous research and deep empathy, Taffe invites us into the world of the tenth century, so unlike our own and yet, we discover, also familiar, a place of beauty and brutality, poetry and pain, longing and loss.' Robyn Cadwallader, The Anchoress
Marion Taffe is a lifelong daydreamer. She was born in Melbourne, enjoyed a childhood on Magnetic Island in North Queensland and spent her teen years in her family's historic Ballarat home, which was open to the public. She studied Arts at ACU in Ballarat and rowed for Australia in the Under 23 World Championships. Rowing led Marion to a cadetship in journalism and a twenty-year career in media, working at newspapers and magazines in Ballarat, Townsville, Manchester, the Gold Coast and Melbourne, where she was national features and travel editor at mX for eight years. She studied Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT where she was named Creative Industries Student of the Year in her graduating year of 2023. Marion was runner-up in the Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Prize (non-fiction) in 2022 and a recipient of a Varuna Residential Fellowship in 2023.
