num_pages: 528
description: A gripping feminist adventure story of smuggling and myth-making by award-winning author Kim Sherwood.A Wild &amp; True Relation opens during the Great Storm of 1703 as smuggler Tom West confronts his lover Grace for betraying him to the Revenue. Leaving Graces cottage in flames he takes her orphaned daughter Molly on board ship disguised as a boy to join his crew. But Molly or Orlando as she must call herself will grow up to outshine all the men of Toms company and seek revenge  and a legacy  all of her own.Woven into Mollys story are the writers  from Celia Fiennes and George Eliot to Daniel Defoe and Charles Dickens  who are transfixed by her myth and who over three centuries come together to solve the mystery of her life. With extraordinary verve  Sherwood remakes the eighteenth-century novel and challenges womens writing and womens roles throughout history.
language: English
title: A Wild & True Relation
publisher: Virago Press