Harvest Book: The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits (Paperback)

from markajudd

Lesbian author of short historical monographs.Enjoyed most. Eclectic subject matter and good at dealing with the underclass and drawing on folk-lore subjects.

from extrajoker

stories: The Last Rabbit / Acts of Union / The Fox on the Line / Account / Revelations / Night Vision / Ballad / Come, Gentle Night / Salvage / Cured / Figures of Speech / Words for Things / How a Lady Dies / A Short Story / Dido / The Necessity of Burning / Looking for Petronilla For each of the...

from the_awesome_opossum

The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits is a collection of short stories, inspired by extraordinary snippets from Britain's history. On a superficial level, this is all that connects the stories (oh, along with a sly reference to rabbits in every story). But in a more meaningful way, the stories all ...

from 50MinuteMermaid

A whimsical yet oddly substantive collection of historical fiction short stories; obscure or long-forgotten women of Ireland and the British Isles whose tales are lightly and maybe even musingly retold via a kind of legitimate fan-fiction.

from lesleydawn

These are a bunch of fictionalized stories based on true historical events. Keep that in mind when you read it, and the book suddenly turns from so-so to incredible.