A Thousand Suns

Isabella Vance's ambitious debut spans from the cotton fields of 19th-century Gujarat to the suffragette movements of Edwardian London to the jazz clubs of 1920s Harlem, telling the interconnected stories of five extraordinary women whose contributions to history have been systematically erased. Meticulously researched and passionately told, A Thousand Suns is both a corrective to the historical record and a gripping, emotionally devastating novel. Vance writes with the panoramic sweep of a Tolstoy and the intimate precision of a Virginia Woolf.

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Isabella Vance

A historical novelist bringing overlooked women's lives back into the story.

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