Countess Olivia has just married Sebastiano She thought he was his twin sister Viola, when Viola was pretending to be a boy. Meanwhile, Viola loves a man in love with Olivia, and Sebastiano’s best friend is in love with him. Has the course of love ever run less smooth?
“The L Word meets Shakespeare”
If I Should Tell My History continues the story of Shakespeare’s classic play Twelfth Night from the perspective of the three women the play leaves Viola, Countess Olivia, and Olivia's best friend Maria. Now from the recently-discovered manuscripts of an English aristocrat comes this gripping story of Sapphic love and feminine courage.
Lovingly compiled by feminist scholar Dr. Hannah Miyamoto, If I Should Tell My History is the second installment of a tale of women that love women, men that love men, and even an intersexed man that looks like a woman, in a 16th century Italy wracked by treachery, murder, and war.
CONTENT Consequences of Sexual Assault.
What others have said about The New Countess Series:
“These are not just modern people in period costumes... you will find yourself thinking about these characters long after you have finished the story.”
- Cloudia W. Charters, author of Aloha, Where You Like Go?