Captivating, fierce, bracingly intelligent, Hero is a love story for our times unfolding in the week after a marriage proposal
Hero is a love story for our times: a novel that exposes the precious things women give up in order to be loved, and in order to be free.
´The truest representation of the headiness and power of female longing I´ve ever read´ Kirsty Capes, author of Girls and Careless
´Thrilling and dynamic´ Andrew McMillan, author of Pity and Playtime
She´s a waitress. He´s a chef. They used to be best friends, but now, they´re in love and living together in a studio apartment. She´s also a selkie, Odysseus, and a cowgirl called Quick Fingers. He´s a really good man.
When he asks her to marry him, Hero panics. She is lots of things but one thing she doesn´t want to be is anybody´s wife.
Drawing on a rich history of myth and legend, Hero is a story about what it means for women to be supporting characters in a world written by men. How can you be yourself when you are a product of other people´s imaginations? How can you love another person and be free?