Jennifer Saint & Natasha Solomons
Wednesday 11th October 2023
Greenside Church, 1b Royal Terrace, Edinburgh, EH7 5AB
7pm
7.30pm
Anyone who spends anytime in bookshops will know that Feminist Retellings of classic stories and slices of mythology abound. And we are thrilled that two of the genres finest practitioners, Jennifer Saint and Natasha Solomons, will be joining us at Greenside Church in October.
Natasha and Jennifer will be joining us to talk about their latest releases, Fair Rosaline & Atalanta , respectively. So join us in celebrating this pair of wonderful authors and their love for reclaiming the old and giving it a new lease of life.
About Natasha Solomons
Natasha Solomons is the author of seven internationally bestselling novels, including: Mr Rosenblum's List, The Novel in the Viola, which was chosen for the Richard & Judy Book Club, and I, Mona Lisa. Her work has been translated into seventeen languages. She lives in Dorset with her family. Fair Rosaline is Natasha's latest novel: a subversive, powerful untelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, narrated by a fierce, forgotten voice: this is Rosaline’s story.
About Jennifer Saint
Thanks to a lifelong fascination with Ancient Greek mythology, Jennifer Saint read Classical Studies at King's College, London. Since September 2022, she has been a Visiting Research Fellow in the Classics Department there. In between, she spent thirteen years as an English teacher, sharing a love of literature and creative writing with her students. Ariadne is her first novel, Elektra is her second, and Atalanta is her latest mesmerising mythological retelling.