THE MATCHSTICK GIRL
Book Description
YELENA walks the frozen line between cold and poverty on the streets of nineteenth-century St. Petersburg. When fortune briefly shines on her, she catches a glimpse of hopes and unknown joys she never imagined could have been within her reach. But as soon as it appears, it is taken from her. Obsession takes hold, and as the years pass, she grows to want far more than what the life of a young girl of the streets can offer. Through luck and deceit, she lands a place at the esteemed Smolny Institute for Noble Girls, where the young women of the Russian court are taught mathematics, literature, and science — and where Yelena hopes to light a fire under Russian society.
THE MATCHSTICK GIRL brings LGBT undercurrents to Imperial Russia in a richly atmospheric tale of ambition, desire, and the hunger for a life beyond one's station.
Recognition
- Shortlisted for the 2012 Dundee International Book Prize (the UK's premier prize for debut novelists)
Author Bio
Suzanne Hocking, a Canadian citizen currently residing in New Zealand, has been published by Artful Codger Press, Ultraviolet Magazine, The Lighthouse Wire, and The Queen's Feminist Review. Her novel THE MATCHSTICK GIRL was shortlisted for the 2012 Dundee International Book Prize.
Book Details
| ISBN: | 978-1-926716-34-3 |
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| Publisher: | 8th House Publishing |
| Genre: | Literary Fiction / LGBT Fiction / Historical Fiction |
| Format: | Paperback / eBook |
| Setting: | 19th-century St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Debut: | Yes — Debut novel |
Also by This Author
Debut novel.
