★授權英、美、德

Say My Name tells the story of a 48-year-old woman who, through an affair with a much younger musician, discovers her erotic freedom and with it her sense of herself. Allegra’s goal was to write a Fear of Flying for women in their forties and beyond.

The author writes, “I hope that readers will find the book sensual and liberating in its fantasy, and also utterly real in its depiction of a moribund marriage, the perils of a love affair that crosses worlds, and the liberation a grown woman feels when truly finding herself.”

This is Allegra Huston’s first work of fiction but her non-fiction book Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found that was published by S&S in the US and Bloomsbury in the UK. It was extremely well received - serialised in The Sunday Times and praised by Salman Rushdie, Simon Schama, Andrew Harvey and Lynn Barber, among others.

 

Allegra Huston has worked in publishing and film. She is a freelance writer and editor and has written for, among others, The Times, The Tatler, The Independent on Sunday, Vogue in the US and France and Harper’s Bazaar. Her first book Love Child was published by Bloomsbury UK and Simon and Schuster US. She lives in New Mexico with her family.