Awakening

One year after Darwin’s explosive publication of The Origin of Species, sisters Anna and Beatrice Pentecost awaken to a world shattered by science, radicalism, and the stirrings of feminist rebellion—a world of charismatic religious movements, Spiritualist séances, bitter loss, and medical trauma. Historical figures of the Victorian epoch wander through the backdrop of the novel, as Anna’s anomalous love for Lore Ritter and her friendship with freethinking and ambitious Miriam Sala carry her into areas of uncharted desire; while Beatrice, forced to choose between her beloved Will Anwyl and the evangelist Christian Ritter, is pulled between passion and duty. Each is torn by inner contradictions, but who will survive when the sisters fall into a fatal conflict with one another?

Stevie Davies is a professor of creative writing at Swansea University and the award-winning author of Boy Blue, winner of the Fawcett Society Book Prize; Closing the Book, long-listed for the Booker Prize; and The Element of Water, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award.

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