Yara Rodrigues Fowler Press Reviews
'There are more things is a vivid and expansive novel of sisterhood, love and connection. Reading it is a true experience of joy, and of hope' -- Sophie Mackintosh, author of THE WATER CURE
'A serious accomplishment from a talented writer with a gloriously untethered style' - Sunday Times
'A lyrical celebration, and mourning, of women driven to and empowered by activism and community engagement . . . Yara Rodrigues Fowler depicts agitation and revolution as a combination of personal and shared moments, filled with hope, loss, loneliness and love' - TLS
'Gripping. Yara writes about London like no other and she made me fall in love with the city all over again. A lyrical, relatable and fiercely intelligent tale of first loves, friendships, family and politics told with generosity, skill and compassion.' -- Zeba Talkhani, author of MY PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY
'Typically magnificent from a unique writer' -- Musa Okwonga
'An empowering, lyrical and radical book about friendship, protest movements, community and the power of standing up for what you believe in. Yara once again rips up what we consider to be a novel and pushes the form forward in an exciting and readable way' -- Nikesh Shukla
A political novel rooted in power and cemented in hope - The Skinny, Books of the Year 2022
About Yara Rodrigues Fowler
Yara Rodrigues Fowler grew up in a Brazilian-English household in London, where she still lives. She has a BA in English from Oxford and an MA in Comparative Literature at UCL. Yara is a trustee of Latin American Women's Aid, the only refuge run for and by Latin American women in the UK and has also given workshops on gender and power to teenage girls with feminist organisation Fearless Futures. Yara's writing has been published in Litro, and the UCL Publishers' Prize, and she received a Special Mention in the 2015 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Competition.
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