Q+A with Sally Gardner
Guest: Sally Gardner, award-winning novelist and Listening Books Ambassador, with Claire Bell from Listening Books
Claire Bell from Listening Books, the audiobook charity, is joined by award-winning novelist and Listening Books Ambassador Sally Gardner. Sally writes and illustrates children’s literature for older, middle, and early readers and writes adults’ historical fiction under the pseudonym Wray Delaney. She discusses her historical fiction novel, The Weather Woman.
The Weather Woman is the story of Neva Friezland, born into a world of trickery and illusion, where fortunes can be won and lost on the turn of a card. Neva has an extraordinary gift. She can predict the weather. In Regency England, where the proper goal for a gentlewoman is marriage and only God knows the weather, this is dangerous. It is also potentially very lucrative.
In order to debate with the men of science and move about freely, Neva adopts a sophisticated male disguise. She foretells the weather from inside an automaton created by her brilliant clockmaker father.
But what will happen when the disguised Neva falls in love with a charismatic young man? It can be very dangerous to be ahead of your time, especially as a woman.
Listening Books members can stream and download the audiobook for The Weather Woman here
Video time
60 minutes
