LILITH IS THE HEROINE WOMEN HAVE WAITED SIX THOUSAND YEARS FOR.
ONE OF STYLIST'S BEST NEW FEMINIST RETELLINGS TO READ IN 2023
A DELIA ONLINE BOOK OF THE MONTH
‘LUSH, LYRICAL PROSE’ DAILY MAIL
‘FEISTY, FURIOUS, AND STARTLINGLY FUNNY… EVERY PAGE SEETHES WITH LILITH’S RAGE AND HEARTACHE’ NAOMI KELSEY
In the Garden of Eden, at the beginning of time, an outrageous lie is born: that women are inferior.
Lilith and Adam are equal and happy in the Garden of Eden. But when Adam decides Lilith should submit to his will and lie beneath him, she refuses – and is banished forever from Paradise. Demonised and sidelined, Lilith watches in fury as God creates Eve, the woman who accepts her submission. But Lilith has a secret: she has already tasted the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Endowed with Wisdom, she knows why Asherah – God’s wife and equal, the Queen of Heaven – is missing. Lilith has a plan: she will rescue Eve, find Asherah, restore balance to the world and regain her rightful place in Paradise.
‘Lilith is beautifully written, thought-provoking, and always true to its heroine. Truly a unique, magnificent achievement’ Costanza Casati, author of Clytemnestra
‘Stellar... This feminist reimagining of the Bible will grip readers’ Publishers Weekly , starred review
‘A ferocious, heterodox mythic novel that upends notions of divinity, femininity versus masculinity, and human beings’ responsibility toward one another and the earth’ Foreword Reviews , starred review
‘Furious, fierce & feminist… Simply the best book I’ve read in years’ Nydia Hetherington
‘Fans of Madeline Miller and Jennifer Saint will love this evocative feminist retelling’ Rosie Andrews
‘Perhaps the most powerful, audacious, hopeful novel I’ve ever read’ Louise Morrish
‘Marmery’s exquisite prose brings this compelling, highly relevant tale of Adam’s first wife to life’ Laura Shepperson
‘In a poetic voice, at once ancient and modern, Nikki Marmery’s Lilith conjures a feminist counter-narrative’ Kathleen B. Jones
‘I learned so much from this joyous rampage through Biblical history’ Alice Albinia
‘Marmery delivers one of the most gloriously feminist myth-meets-historical-fiction novels I’ve read’ Susan C. Wilson
‘A furious tornado of a novel’ Maggie Brookes
‘Fierce and utterly original’ Jennifer Saint
‘The book I’ve been waiting my whole life for’ Victoria Hawthorne
‘An extraordinary, important book’ Sara Sheridan
‘Dynamite. I laughed loud, fumed louder’ Meg Clothier
‘A battle cry of a book. A rich, vividly written story’ Sophie Keetch
‘At long last we have the origin story women deserve’ Miranda Malins
‘Defiant and magnificent’ Chikodili Emelumadu
‘Ambitious and intriguing’ Elyse John
‘Daring, fresh and playful’ Ann Morgan
‘An invigoratingly furious book’ Niamh Boyce
‘Witty and furious’ Joanne Burn
‘Exquisitely written and full of wit and female rage’ Rani Selvarajah
