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Author: Buckley, Katie

Myth & legend told as fiction

Published on 30 January 2025 by Headline Publishing Group (Tinder Press) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 256 pages
224 x 145 x 26 | 362g

Hero is a love story for our times: a novel that exposes the precious things women give up in order to be loved, and in order to be free.

‘Fierce and thrillingly subversive’ Financial Times’The truest representation of the headiness and power of female longing I’ve ever read’ Kirsty Capes, author of Girls and Careless’Thrilling and dynamic’ Andrew McMillan, author of Pity and PlaytimeShe’s a waitress. He’s a chef. They used to be best friends, but now, they’re in love and living together in a studio apartment. She’s also a selkie, Odysseus, and a cowgirl called Quick Fingers. He’s a really good man.

When he asks her to marry him, Hero panics. She is lots of things but one thing she doesn’t want to be is anybody’s wife.

Drawing on a rich history of myth and legend, Hero is a story about what it means for women to be supporting characters in a world written by men. How can you be yourself when you are a product of other people’s imaginations? How can you love another person and be free?