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Product details
- ISBN 9781915983244
- Dimensions: 127 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 18 Mar 2025
- Publisher: Goldsmiths, University of London
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A group of Victorian women, shipwrecked on an island in a parallel universe, fight for change.
Thirty "surplus" mothers from asylums, workhouses, and the streets of Victorian England are shipwrecked on an island in an alternate universe. To survive, they must create a new society amid the lethal black sands and mysterious beasts. How will they shake off the patriarchal chains that bound them and raise their children to be free? How will Betty, who longs to be back under the guidance of her master, survive, as the community evolves? And who is watching them?
Thirty "surplus" mothers from asylums, workhouses, and the streets of Victorian England are shipwrecked on an island in an alternate universe. To survive, they must create a new society amid the lethal black sands and mysterious beasts. How will they shake off the patriarchal chains that bound them and raise their children to be free? How will Betty, who longs to be back under the guidance of her master, survive, as the community evolves? And who is watching them?
Sue Dawes has a PhD in Creative Writing, with a focus on gendered language and inclusion, and which involved writing a non-binary speculative utopia. Sue also writes short stories and flash fiction, and experiments with Japanese short form poetry (haibun). She is an avid sf fan, and has had several short stories published in magazines and on-line anthologies.
