Lilith

ONE OF STYLIST''S BEST NEW FEMINIST RETELLINGS TO READ IN 2023
A DELIA ONLINE BOOK OF THE MONTH
âLUSH, LYRICAL PROSEâ DAILY MAIL
âFEISTY, FURIOUS, AND STARTLINGLY FUNNY⦠EVERY PAGE SEETHES WITH LILITHâS RAGE AND HEARTACHEâ 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 â" 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 â" Godâs wife and equal, the Queen of Heaven â" is missing. Lilith has a plan: she will rescue Eve, find Asherah, restore balance to the world and regain her rightful place in Paradise.

âLilith is beautifully written, thought-provoking, and always true to its heroine. Truly a unique, magnificent achievementâ Costanza Casati, author of Clytemnestra

âStellar... This feminist reimagining of the Bible will grip readersâ Publishers Weekly, starred review

âA ferocious, heterodox mythic novel that upends notions of divinity, femininity versus masculinity, and human beingsâ responsibility toward one another and the earthâ Foreword Reviews, starred review

âFurious, fierce & feminist⦠Simply the best book Iâve read in yearsâ Nydia Hetherington

âFans of Madeline Miller and Jennifer Saint will love this evocative feminist retellingâ Rosie Andrews

âPerhaps the most powerful, audacious, hopeful novel Iâve ever readâ Louise Morrish

âMarmeryâs exquisite prose brings this compelling, highly relevant tale of Adamâs first wife to lifeâ Laura Shepperson

âIn a poetic voice, at once ancient and modern, Nikki Marmeryâs Lilith conjures a feminist counter-narrativeâ Kathleen B. Jones

âI learned so much from this joyous rampage through Biblical historyâ Alice Albinia

âMarmery delivers one of the most gloriously feminist myth-meets-historical-fiction novels Iâve readâ Susan C. Wilson

âA furious tornado of a novelâ Maggie Brookes
âFierce and utterly originalâ Jennifer Saint
âThe book Iâve been waiting my whole life forâ Victoria Hawthorne
âAn extraordinary, important bookâ Sara Sheridan
âDynamite. I laughed loud, fumed louderâ Meg Clothier
âA battle cry of a book. A rich, vividly written storyâ Sophie Keetch
âAt long last we have the origin story women deserveâ Miranda Malins
âDefiant and magnificentâ Chikodili Emelumadu
âAmbitious and intriguingâ Elyse John
âDaring, fresh and playfulâ Ann Morgan
âAn invigoratingly furious bookâ Niamh Boyce
âWitty and furiousâ Joanne Burn
âExquisitely written and full of wit and female rageâ Rani Selvarajah