The lesbian woodland version of Tales of the City
In August we publish A Circle Outside, a quirky comedy of manners set in a lesbian commune in Northern California in the 1980s.
A coven of eight women facing eviction from their present home are offered the chance to set up a new community in the nearby redwood forest. It seems the perfect place to practise the ritual Wiccan magic that helps them function harmoniously as a group. By getting back to the land, they can also live more authentically and give the finger to the Patriarchy.
That doesn’t stop conflicts arising over sexual jealousies, the annoying supernatural boasts of the land’s owner, and whether or not a diesel-spewing tractor should be viewed as male.
Warm, funny and harking nostalgically back to an era where women could create single-sex spaces with less controversy than today, A Circle Outside is a smart, wise, seductive comedy of manners.
It’s the debut novel of Linda Rosewood, a Californian now living in Ireland, writing about the life she herself lived at the time. We like to think of A Circle Outside as a lesbian woodland version of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City.
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