Kate Scarth

And so that part really appealed to me.

So the narrator, mother investigator character is translating from Irish into English, a poem by an 18th century noble woman, the King of Art O'Leary.

And it is about, so it's a mourning poem when she finds her husband murdered.

And

I loved that the narrator trying to learn more about the woman behind this poem was such a central focus of the book.

And our narrator, yeah, she talks to people, she visits sites, she does lots of reading.

And again, yeah, I just found that really compelling as well as the beautiful language there.

And the focus, of course, too, on this is a female text is kind of the mantra of the book, right?

That's repeated again and again.

And it points to my interest in stories about women and the stories that women create.

Yeah.

It's something that I'm drawn to.

I mean, especially like the 18th and 19th century, I had a really great professors teaching in that area.

I've always, and I think it's probably we can blame Jane, Jane Austin really, who kind of hooked me into that time period.

Yeah.

So I'm just, yeah, I'm really interested in,

Well, fiction, but then also nonfiction that kind of has that individual human element at the center of women who are creating.

So writing in particular, but then, yeah, but then all kinds of art.

I think it's just, it's a really interesting way into the past because it's about when women start creating things, it's about them reacting to the world around them, shaping the world around them.

Kate, what's the third book you love?