It is every woman’s duty to have a child, to replace those that were lost in the Great Flu. She loves her broad-shouldered, bashful husband and her job as an apprentice midwife.īut her luck will not last. On the day of her wedding-dance, Ada feels lucky. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. ‘A grand, unforgettable tale’ ESMÉ WEIJUN WANG ‘A western unlike any other, Outlawed features queer cowgirls, gender nonconforming robbers and a band of feminists that fight against the grain for autonomy, agency and the power to define their own worth’ MS. ‘A thrilling tale eerily familiar but utterly transformed … In North’s galloping prose, it’s a fantastically cinematic adventure that turns the sexual politics of the Old West inside out’ WASHINGTON POST ‘Fans of Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy finally get the Western they deserve’ ALEXIS COE Reader, you are in for a real treat’ JENNY ZHANG It upends the tropes of the traditionally macho and heteronormative genre while also being a rip-snortin’ good read, too’ THE WEEK (Most Anticipated Books of the Year) ‘ Outlawed sets a high bar for the 12 months of publishing still to come. It’s an absolute romp and contains basically everything I want in a book: witchy nuns, heists, a marriage of convenience, and a midwife trying to build a bomb out of horse dung’ Vox ‘2021 is already a year that could use a little joy. ‘Calling it The Handmaid’s Tale crossed with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid goes some way to describe this novel’s memorable world, but it is also wholly its own’ KIRKUS MAJOR TV ADAPTATION IN DEVELOPMENT BY AMY ADAMS

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