A debut novel, first published in 1978, telling of a woman who is both a dutiful daughter, wife and mother and also a witch, whore, mad-woman and insatiable lesbian, and as her worlds collide, she slips between the cracks of time.

A piece of the night

LGBTQ+ Books

Michèle Roberts

Literature & Fiction

The Womens Press

Feminist Aesthetics

Politics & Social Sciences

Gisela Ecker (ed)

Social Sciences

In the midst of a war-ravaged world, the City -- sealed off from the Outside for three centuries -- becomes the last refuge for a handful of human beings, including a girl endowed with extraordinary powers of rejuvenation.

THE SILENT CITY.

Vonarburg, Élisabeth

Reference

In Book One of the Holdfast Chronicles, Aldera the Messenger, along with all other women, is a slave. In Book Two, Aldera the Runner lives in two worlds, both consisting entirely of women. Now in Book Three, The Furies, Aldera the Conquere leads an army back over the mountains, hoping to end the tyranny and free the slaves she left behind.

Furies

SUZY MCKEE CHARNAS

Contemporary

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