Bear Woman

Bear Woman A Moving and Powerful Exploration of Motherhood and the Female Experience

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 authors

A 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

Book information

ISBN: 9781786580597
Publisher: Bonnier Books UK
Imprint: Manilla
Pub date:
DEWEY: 971.011092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 260g
Height: 197mm
Width: 128mm
Spine width: 22mm