Saturday, June 17, 2023

Top 10 sapphic love stories

Lily Lindon is a writer and editor living in London. She studied English Literature at Cambridge University, where she was involved with the Footlights comedy group. She was an Editor at Vintage, Penguin Random House, before joining the creative writing school The Novelry.

Her novels are Double Booked and My Own Worst Enemy.

At the Guardian Lindon tagged ten "books that affirm that Sapphic love can be one of life’s greatest pleasures." One title on the list:
Infamous by Lex Croucher

You might think the most unhappy sapphists are those living in past historical eras, but that’s not the case in Croucher’s riotous romps. In Regency-era Infamous, 22-year-old Eddie is so busy trying to impress a charismatic rival of Lord Byron with her writing that she doesn’t realise regular “kissing practice” with best friend Rose might not be completely platonic. Expect charmingly bonkers characters, irreverent escapism, and non-stop witticisms.
Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue