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Jane is an ordinary person: a junior fiscal inspector, a sixteen year old civil servant under the majesty of Berenice I, by the bounty of the goddesses Empress of Surrey. The extraordinary women who wield power in the imperial hierarchy have assigned Jane to audit the accounts of an independent company of light cavalry, in the war zone that is Essex. The company is commanded by Modesty Clay with whom Jane falls in love. Her unwise emotional attachment leads Jane into a world in which she needs to grow up very quickly, a world in which the Empress herself takes a personal interest.
436 pages, Paperback
First published April 29, 2010
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May 23, 2014
It is a novel of free floating imagination, it unvails the world that is for us politically challenging, if not unacceptable – the female only future. It unravels it through the eyes of a teenage girl. It is hard to imagine the world with just women, and the book does not portray it as a perfect or “to look forward to“.It is what it is, and for Jane it‘s the only reality she knows. Apart from original style, a perfectionist unvailing of the character of Jane through her narration (she comes to life through her notes as a very real and a very specific person) the book shines a new light on women. It would be interesting to know when this book has been written, in relation to which era of the developpement of feminism.
Through imagination ‚Jane‘ brings to life equality between women and men. It does it in a positive way, through a beautiful image of female capacity and humanity and through eyes of a lusty and a bit punkish though maticulus in her reports teenager. It is a journey to the female world, more real than what I have experienced in many other cultural creations. It is a complex image of women living with women, and it is not a fantasy of a man. It is truely inspiring and eye opening read, and a journey I think we should all go through.
Through imagination ‚Jane‘ brings to life equality between women and men. It does it in a positive way, through a beautiful image of female capacity and humanity and through eyes of a lusty and a bit punkish though maticulus in her reports teenager. It is a journey to the female world, more real than what I have experienced in many other cultural creations. It is a complex image of women living with women, and it is not a fantasy of a man. It is truely inspiring and eye opening read, and a journey I think we should all go through.
May 21, 2014
This novel has swagger. Post-apocalyptic fantasy exploring a hyper-feminist society through the youth and eroticism of beaucrat Jane. P.F.Jeffery’s writing bounces with intelligence, charisma, and humor (an absolute pleasure to read)- but still finds the time to critically analyze itself, and feminity, and sex, and love, in a very gentle and confident way.
December 6, 2018
Very interesting point of view of a possible evolution in society.
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