About this ebook
For centuries, the establishment has suppressed public knowledge of lesbian love. Now, a celebrated writer is set to fight back.
Award-winning author, Radclyffe Hall, hopes her new novel, The Well of Loneliness, will transform attitudes to same-sex relationships. It soon comes under attack from the right-wing press, concerned about its potential impact on readers. One such reader is Maggie Dillon, a young trainee firefighter, who has been struggling with fears that she is an abomination after kissing another woman at a party.
Can The Well transform Maggie’s views about herself and help her to find love? And will Radclyffe Hall keep her book in print long enough to radically change the views of society?
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About the author
Hilary McCollum is an Irish writer and creative activist on lesbian visibility, violence against women and girls, and the environment. Her first novel, Golddigger, won the 2016 Golden Crown Literary Society prize for historical fiction. In 2021, she completed a PhD in Creative Writing at Queen’s University Belfast, which focused on lesbian historical fiction. She has written four plays, including Life & Love: Lesbian Style, which was shortlisted for best new writing at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. Her memoir, Funny Peculiar (Brandon, 2008), was published under the name Constance McCullagh. She lives by the sea in Ireland with her partner, cat and two dogs.
