Tickets: Free for Hearth members / £5 General Admission / £10 Ticket + Wine
About The Event
Step into the rich and vivid worlds of historical fiction by women, about women, in this engaging book club. Each six weeks, we’ll journey through stories that illuminate the lives, struggles, and triumphs of women across different eras and cultures. From queens and rebels to everyday heroines, from Roman times to the 1960s, these narratives offer a window into the challenges women have always faced, as well as their resilience, courage, and ingenuity.
Our discussions will go beyond plot, exploring the inner lives of these characters, the historical contexts they navigate, and the ways their stories resonate with today’s world. This is a book club for those who love history, as well as the (often) unsung heroes of the past.
Amie Ferris-Rotman
Journalist, Editor & Co-Author of Forthcoming Book
Amie Ferris-Rotman is a British-American journalist. She has covered Afghan refugees and the war in Ukraine for TIME, spent nearly a decade in Russia as a Reuters and Washington Post correspondent, and exposed abuses against Kazakh women in Chinese camps. Her articles have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New York Times and Foreign Policy.
A former Reuters senior correspondent in Afghanistan, she founded Sahar Speaks, empowering Afghan female journalists, earning the British Press Award for Innovation (2016). A Stanford JSK Fellow, she holds degrees in Russian Studies and serves on Rukhshana Media’s board. She is the global news editor at New Lines Magazine, based in London. She is the co-author, with Afghan journalist Zahra Joya, of the upcoming "The Vanishing Girl of Kabul".
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