Hero
A fierce and captivating literary love story for 2025
by Katie Buckley
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Pub Date 30 Jan 2025 | Archive Date 13 Feb 2025
Headline | Tinder Press
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Description
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?
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781035413072 |
| PRICE | £16.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 192 |
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Featured Reviews
Clare E, Book Trade Professional
This is a stunning book. Breathtaking prose, a love story, and what it means to be a young woman trying to stand apart from a life shapen by the patriarchy and the male gaze. The tale takes place over a week, with a deadline at the end of it, when the narrator must decide whether or not to marry the boyfriend she loves. Told with an inventive mix of modern fairy tale and stream of consciousness recollections at the people and experiences that have led her to this point, Hero is brilliantly insightful about what it means to be a young woman right now. It's funny and sad, but never didactic, with a gloriously romantic story at its heart and exquisite, poetic prose.
Camille O, Librarian
For me Hero by Katie Buckley brought to mind Clare Pollard's novel Delphi in the way it explores mythology but in a contemporary setting and also the film Promising Young Woman in the way that it explores the ways in which women are subjugated. Beautifully written - I would love to read more from this author.
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