![]() In academical guise, they mostly write about Elizabeth Siddal causing havoc with medieval objects, or horrible geese invading Pre-Raphaelite artworks. Nat Reeve is a novelist from Gower, currently finishing a PhD in Victorian art, literature and queerness at Royal Holloway, University of London. A delight!” – Ally Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces “Nat Reeve’s debut sizzles and crackles with confidence, offering a timeless tale of LGBTQ people finding family wherever they can. “Nettleblack arrives breathlessly, wholly itself, yet also winding down the strange and brilliant bent lanes previously ridden by Sylvia Townsend Warner and Robert Aickman.” -So Mayer, author of A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing Nettleblack is a subversive and playful ride (with bicycles, rodents and a decadent, Welsh-speaking chwaer) through the perils and joys of finding your place in the world, challenging myths about queerness – particularly transness – as a modern phenomenon, while exploring the practicalities of articulating queer perspectives when you’re struggling for words. Equipped with £50 and a ferret, she is ambushed, robbed, and then rescued by a mysterious organisation run by women – part detective agency, part neighbourhood watch – in which she enlists. Henry Nettleblack runs away from home to evade her elder sister’s plans to marry her into the aristocracy. ![]() Taliesin Create, Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea University, SA1 8PPġ893. ![]() ![]() ‘Nettleblack’ – Nat Reeve in conversation with Marie-Luise Kohlke Cultural Institute Literary Salon Series presents: ![]()
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