By Any Other Name

byJodi Picoult

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1581. Emilia Bassano is allowed no voice of her own, but finds a way to secretly bring her work to the stage. Yet by paying a man for the use of his name, she will write her own out of history. His name? William Shakespeare.

Present day Manhattan. Young playwright Melina Green is determined to see one of her shows make the stage, but it appears a woman’s voice is still worth less than a man’s. So inspired by the life of her ancestor Emilia Bassano, she takes a lesson from history and submits a play under a male pseudonym . . .

Women have long been written out of history, but have they held the pen all along?

A likeable heroine and a fun, readable evocation of Elizabethan court life and theatre

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About Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult is the author of 29 novels, with 40 million copies sold worldwide. She has had 17 Sunday Times number one bestsellers. Five novels have been made into movies and Between The Lines (co-written with daughter Samantha van Leer) has been adapted as a musical. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the New England Bookseller Award for
Fiction, the Alex Award from the YA Library Services Association, and the NH Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Merit.
She is also the co-librettist for the musicals BREATHE and THE BOOK THIEF, which debuted in the UK in 2022.
She lives in New Hampshire with her husband.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781405961899
  • Length: 544 pages
  • Dimensions: 197mm x 34mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 372g
  • Price: £9.99
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