Only One

by Gail Lewis

Sarah Tanner was about to turn eighteen which meant she would be forced to fulfill a commitment of marriage made by her Mormon father. To escape a terrible future as one of many wives, she runs away to make a new life in the city. Caught in a storm she falls victim to the elements. Saved by a stranger, handsome Jordan Eversly, Sarahs misadventures have only just begun. She finds herself falling for Jordan but discovers that parliament has passed a bill abolishing polygamy. Would she be Jordans choice now that he could have Only One wife?

182 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 19, 2013

About the author

Gail Lewis is a British writer, psychotherapist, researcher, and activist. She is visiting senior fellow in the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics, and Reader Emerita of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, London. She trained as a psychodynamic psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic.
Lewis's work is rooted in black feminist and anti-racist struggle, and a socialist, anti-imperialist politics. She was a co-founder of the Organisation for Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD), and she was a member of the Brixton Black Women's Group. She was a founding collective editorial member of the Feminist Review. Lewis was interviewed for the oral history project "Sisterhood and After: The Women's Liberation", archived at the British Library, a project that interviewed "feminists who were at the forefront of the Women's Liberation Movement in the 1970s and 80s".