Welcome to Virago – A feminist publisher of outstanding books for all readers
Since we began in 1973, our mission has been to champion women’s voices and bring them to the widest possible readership around the world. From fiction and politics to history and classic children’s stories, our writers continue to win acclaim, break new ground and enrich the lives of readers. More recently, as part of our commitment to an ever more inclusive feminism, we also publish and welcome submissions from writers of underrepresented genders.
The Sharaf family is the picture of success. They arrived in America as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. And now, after years of hard work, they live in the most exclusive neighbourhood, their growing family attending the most prestigious schools. Zorah, the eldest daughter, is the apple of her father’s eye. But when Zorah dies in an unthinkable tragedy, the family is thrust into the court of public opinion. There is talk that the Sharafs’ happy household was anything but, and soon the veneer of the model immigrant family starts to crumble. Those who knew her best – and those who never met her – all have an opinion on who Zorah really was, and what really happened to her . . .
Eileen Mary Challans (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983), is better known by her pen name Mary Renault. Renault wrote her first novels - beginning with Purposes of Love, a hospital romance about a bisexual love triangle - as she worked as a nurse. In 1948, having won the $150,000 MGM Prize, she moved…