The Number 1 New York Times bestseller from the author of My Sister's Keeper and Mad Honey
'Her best one yet' JOJO MOYES
'A timeless classic' CHRIS WHITAKER
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Student playwright Melina Green finds that even in New York, her words will struggle to make the stage, when the power is held by men. Inspired by the life of her ancestor Emilia Bassano, a gifted and witty storyteller herself, Melina takes a lesson from history, and submits a play under a male pseudonym . . .
As Melina discovers more of Emilia's extraordinary life in Elizabethan England, she is determined to right the wrongs of the past - and finally tell her story.
Two women - centuries apart - are both forced to hide behind another...
Jodi Picoult is the author of 30 novels, with 60 million copies sold worldwide. She has had 17 Sunday Times number one bestsellers. Five novels have been made into movies and Between The Lines (co-written with daughter Samantha van Leer) has been adapted as a musical. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the New England Bookseller Award for
Fiction, the Alex Award from the YA Library Services Association, and the NH Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Merit.
She is also the co-librettist for the musicals BREATHE and THE BOOK THIEF.
She lives in New Hampshire with her husband.