Fair Rosaline (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Before Juliet, there was Rosaline. Fair Rosaline by Natasha Solomons boldly reclaims the silenced voice of Romeo's first love — the woman Shakespeare wrote out of history — and restores her to the centre of one of the world's most enduring love stories. Set in the sun-drenched streets and shadowed households of Verona, this audacious retelling chronicles Rosaline's encounter with the charming, reckless Romeo, exposing the darker truth behind his romantic pursuit: obsession, manipulation, and a love that was never truly hers to give. Solomons writes with a razor-sharp feminist sensibility, weaving a narrative that is simultaneously a literary corrective and a gripping standalone tale of survival and self-determination. Drawing on the rich tradition of Shakespearean revisionism — echoing works like Wide Sargasso Sea and Hag-Seed — she illuminates what the original text deliberately obscured, giving agency and interiority to a woman reduced to a footnote. Provocative, lyrical, and unflinching, Fair Rosaline leaves the reader questioning everything they thought they knew about the world's most famous romance.
Author: Natasha Solomons
Format: Paperback
Published: 2023, Manilla Press
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Before Juliet, there was Rosaline. Fair Rosaline by Natasha Solomons boldly reclaims the silenced voice of Romeo's first love — the woman Shakespeare wrote out of history — and restores her to the centre of one of the world's most enduring love stories. Set in the sun-drenched streets and shadowed households of Verona, this audacious retelling chronicles Rosaline's encounter with the charming, reckless Romeo, exposing the darker truth behind his romantic pursuit: obsession, manipulation, and a love that was never truly hers to give. Solomons writes with a razor-sharp feminist sensibility, weaving a narrative that is simultaneously a literary corrective and a gripping standalone tale of survival and self-determination. Drawing on the rich tradition of Shakespearean revisionism — echoing works like Wide Sargasso Sea and Hag-Seed — she illuminates what the original text deliberately obscured, giving agency and interiority to a woman reduced to a footnote. Provocative, lyrical, and unflinching, Fair Rosaline leaves the reader questioning everything they thought they knew about the world's most famous romance.