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 · Words in My Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd review – life with Descartes. An accomplished first novel that imagines the life, in 17th-century Amsterdam, of young servant Helena Jans van der Strom and Author: Jane Housham. 'The Words in My Hand' is a good title, a stroke-in-one, the phrase neatly summarising the feminist appropriation of words, the male domain for hundreds of years, reclaiming history into herstory. I enjoyed this book very much, and admired the author's historical research as well as the cleverly composed novel, always with the women at the helm /5(). Guinevere Glasfurd. Longlisted Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Shortlisted for the Historical Writers’ Association Gold Crown ‘A STRIKINGLY SHARP AND SUBTLE WRITER’ Guardian. ‘SUPERB BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN UNFORGETTABLE’ FT Weekend. ‘SKILFUL’ Sunday Times. ‘RICH, INTRICATE, IMPRESSIVELY REALISED.

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