Learwife

AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2021''Seductive . . . Gorgeous'' The Times''A fresh perspective on an age-old tale'' Irish Times''I am the queen of two crowns, banished fifteen years, the famed ...

AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2021''Seductive . . . Gorgeous'' The Times''A fresh perspective on an age-old tale'' Irish Times''I am the queen of two crowns, banished fifteen years, the famed and gilded woman, bad-luck baleful girl, mother of three small animals, now gone. I am fifty-five years old. I am Lear''s wife. I am here.''Word has come. Care-bent King Lear is dead, driven mad and betrayed. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear''s queen. Exiled to a nunnery years ago, written out of history, her name forgotten. Now she can tell her story.Though h