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Karen Essex
Dear Reader, My novels are about women and power. Throughout every historical era, dynamic women have influenced world events but history has rarely recorded their accomplishments. In fact, when my daughter was in grade school, she and her friends could not name any powerful women except...Madonna! Whether you are the mother or the father of a young girl, I'm sure that you find that as alarming as I did. At that point, I made it my goal to revive the stories of extraordinary women, highlighting the ways that they transformed the times in which they lived and the world beyond. My new novel, STEALING ATHENA, chronicles the amazing journey of the Elgin Marbles—those controversial treasures taken from the Acropolis by Lord Elgin and placed in the British Museum—through the dual narratives of Mary Nisbet, Elgin's wife, a dazzling Scottish heiress, and Aspasia, philosopher and mistress of Pericles during the Golden Age of Athens. In those heady days, Aspasia witnessed the construction of the Parthenon as she stood fearlessly with Pericles at the center of Athens' power circle. Some 2300 years later, Lady Elgin used her money, her intelligence, and her beauty to negotiate with the fearsome rulers of the Ottoman Empire and the most commanding men in His Majesty's realm to help Elgin realize his ambition of claiming the Marbles for England. Anyone interested in an intimate look at women's lives in these two fascinating periods will enjoy STEALING ATHENA. It's time for women—and men—to have a better sense of the vast and important contributions that women have made to our world. And if that's not enough to lure you, I guarantee that you'll be as riveted to the two passionate love stories at the heart of the novel as I was when I was researching and writing it! For more information on STEALING ATHENA, please visit my website, www.karenessex.com and take advantage of the additional content and information I have provided. Please sign up for my mailing list and receive a monthly newsletter about my books and notices of my blogs on women's issues, women in history, and writing and publishing issues. And if you would like a chance to receive an advance readers' edition of STEALING ATHENA, please email your contact information to doubledayreads@randomhouse.com. With warm regards, Karen Essex "More about money than sex, and more about art than either, Essex's latest...shines light on the women who inspired and protected some of the greatest art ever created, and the men who exploited them." —Publishers Weekly |