For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lisa Taddeo and the essays of Zadie Smith, Bear Woman is a beautifully wrought memoir from one of Sweden''s bestselling authorsA beautifully written and astonishing memoir of a woman - a writer - in the midst of motherhood, marriage and life.While struggling with the demands of family and career, the writer discovers a figure from history, Marguerite de la Rocque, a sixteenth-century noblewoman who was abandoned, pregnant, on a remote island in Nova Scotia.

When she is finally rescued, her lover and her baby have died, but she has survived this inhospitable wilderness, alone, for two long years. It''s a remarkable story of survival, but one that has been consigned to a footnote.Delving deeper into Marguerite''s hidden life, the writer begins to question her ability to tell this story, the story of any women in history - or even her own.''The deeply personal journey of a writer, surprising and illuminating, and for me, familiar in the most reassuring way as she loses herself in this compelling story'' - Esther Freud, author of Hideous Kinky


Format Häftad Omfång 352 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Bonnier Books Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2023-04-27 ISBN 9781786580597