IN ONE BRIEF MOMENT ALL ETERNITY (HB)

During a time of great turmoil, Gustave Flaubert created literature's most scandalous heroine: Madame Bovary. He then poisoned her with arsenic. But what if, 175 years later, Emma – and the women history overlooked – could seize the quill from his hands and tell a different story? Shafak takes readers on an extraordinary journey through time and space - from Flaubert's unusual childhood, to nineteenth-century Paris during the Revolution, and onwards. The questions at the heart of her work take on a thrilling new urgency: who gets to speak, and what would the silenced have said?