Boston Book Festival 2018

The BBF’s fiction lineup might skew toward the serious this year, but here’s your chance to mix things up and hear readings from three new intriguing, female-centered twists on historical fiction. In her new novel, The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, Stonewall Honor winner Mackenzi Lee will inspire teens and adult readers alike with a story about women building unexpected friendships in a society set up to stifle their ambitions. Theodora Goss’s novel European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman also explores women’s friendships--in this case, those forged by the daughters of literature’s mad scientists (from Mary Jekyll to Justine Frankenstein)--as they solve a kidnapping case. And Laura Andersen’s latest novel takes a Gothic turn, imagining three generations of a family in an Irish manor house supposedly haunted by a spectre known as The Darkling Bride. Meet your book club at this can’t-miss session of readings hosted by Whitney Scharer, author of the forthcoming historical novel The Age of Light. Sponsored by BookBub.