healthcare, tools, and services for the public sector. She has a first class degree in English from Pembroke College, Cambridge, and a Masters of Science with distinction from the University of Edinburgh. She is inspired by world mythologies, angry women, speculative fiction, and the stories we tell ourselves about being human.
Kaner's new novel is Godkiller.
At the Waterstones blog she tagged five favorite novels featuring gods, including:
Circe by Madeleine MillerRead about the other entries on the list.
Circe is where we go full god. I inhaled Greek myths as a child, and studied Greek tragedies as a student, so developed a deep love of the capricious, silly, self-centred, cruel and potent gods that inspire Miller’s retelling.
Circe is a demigod beloved of neither gods nor humans. In the myths I read as a child she was antagonist, but in Miller’s tale she is a woman against a brutal world and a cruel pantheon. Through creativity and cunning, she makes a life in almost isolation that still intersects with a new perspective on Greek legends.
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--Marshal Zeringue