Hannah Lavery's Unwritten Woman is a bold and lavish call for us to see the woman in the stories we read and tell ourselves.

From her search for the story, in her home city, Edinburgh, through her chilling re-telling of Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll & Hyde, elevating the women in that classic tale from being written between the lines, to the woman of colour, shouting from the sidelines of our cultural landscape.

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'Lavery expertly directs our attention to what we should see but choose not to'

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'This confident, distinctive collection brokers no easy peace with past or present'

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'a fiercely tender exploration of women in the margins... as if Lavery's talents need any further preaching, Unwritten Woman hails her as a triumph'

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 'a historically, thematically, and stylistically rich new collection'

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'Unwritten Woman is not only the fierce work of speaking back, Lavery also creates spaces for much gentleness, love, vulnerability and calm'

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'a stunning retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde through the eyes of the women in the story'

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'A glorious rallying cry for us to see and hear the women in the tales we read'