{"product_id":"2026200017083-secondhand-fair-rosaline-signed","title":"Fair Rosaline (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore 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.\n\nSolomons 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269353087195,"sku":"2026200017083-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/d4f460c2-17e5-4e20-af42-6817dcc637b4.png?v=1788999218","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017083-secondhand-fair-rosaline-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}