Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World

by Julia Cooke

Restless The Writers Who Made a Place for Women in the World by Julia Cooke is a forthcoming title from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Genres: Biography, History

448 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication February 24, 2026

Reviews

[Debbie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fascinating account of 3 journalists lives in the 20th century - female pioneers. Amazing accounts of the work they did and the restless adventures including the Spanish civil war and World War II. Amazing. Thank you to the author. Thank you to #netgalley and the publisher for an ARC.

[Venneh · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a neat book about three roughly contemporaneous women writers, all of whom I've never heard of before this but now want to see if their writing is still accessible, if only because it was genre foundational. These women, all international journalists who released their experiences of the news stories they told and how they experienced the world, all have pretty extraordinary lives on their own, but the ways they all intersected with each other are also fascinating.