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Biographical note
Yvonne Battle-Felton was born in Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey. She holds an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University where she is an associate Lecturer. A writer of fiction and creative non-fiction, her writing has been published in riverSedge, Assisi, Not Somewhere Else But Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place, Welter, Slices, and The Chesapeake Reader Literary Journal. Yvonne was a recipient of a Northern Writers' Award in 2017 for Remembered.<i>Remembered</i> has drawn comparisons with <b>Toni Morrison's <i>Beloved</i></b>: both are <b>unflinching and haunting</b> in how they address the legacy of the slave trade. Battle-Felton's voice is entirely her own, however, and this book feels vital for our time . . . [this] debut is not an easy read and nor should it be. Fortunate are those of us that only experience such brutality in the pages of a book. Afterwards we emerge more enlightened with our hearts and minds expanded. <b><i>Remembered </i>will stay with you long after reading</b>
Irish Times
<b>It's Philadelphia, 1910, and Battle-Felton's debut historical novel traces the story of Spring from the 1840s to the day of the crash, through the incomprehensible cruelties of not only slavery but the many decades that followed.</b>
FT (Summer books of 2019)
Yvonne Battle-Felton's debut, <i>Remembered</i>, longlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction has been compared to Toni Morrison's seminal 1987 novel <i>Beloved</i>. And rightly so, since both are <b>powerful, unapologetic, revealing</b> works of historical fiction
The Herald
Painful, vital truth resounds in this accomplished work of fiction
Guardian
This <b>scorching historical novel</b> set in Philadelphia in 1910 tells the story of Spring, an emancipated slave forced into a reckoning with her past in order to help her dying son
i paper
Important and timely
nb magazine
[Compares] with Toni Morrison's <i>Beloved . . </i>. Yvonne Battle-Felton's characters get under your skin
Observer
A searing history of slavery is combined with a startling interrogation of motherhood in this American debut . . . Painful, vital truth resounds in this accomplished work of fiction
Guardian
Remembered is a vital read, and one that won't be forgotten any time soon
The Skinny
An affecting debut novel, a powerful exploration of slavery, motherhood and racial tensions
The i
Vital, important and humane. <b>Everyone needs to read this book</b>
- Jenn Ashworth, author of GHOSTED,
Deftly explores generational trauma and the nature of enterprise, and gives a perspective on slavery not often explored
- Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff,
Some books both break your heart and set you free. <b><i>Remembered</i> will change you</b>
- Rachel Edwards, author of LUCKY,