Description
An aging, neglected writer—Erica March—has retreated from public life, leaving behind a legacy that is both political and personal, and a mystery that refuses to stay buried. When a young journalist is sent to interview her, the assignment becomes a reckoning with memory, authorship, and the stories people choose to tell about women who fought for change. As Erica’s life unfolds in fragments—shaped by suffrage activism, ambition, and the costs of visibility—the novel probes what it means to be written about, and who gets to control the narrative. With Rose Tremain’s incisive, literary intelligence and her willingness to blur the boundary between fiction and self-examination, this is a haunting meditation on voice, power, and the fragile line between remembrance and erasure.
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paperback
Arena
Published Jan 1, 1983
251 pages
ISBN: 9780099317005
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First Published
1980
Language
eng
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