Rose Sutherland
Author, queer historical fiction
Embracing romantic motifs of nature and the elements, as well as folktales and the supernatural, Rose's character-driven historical fiction centers LGBTQ people in the day-to-day life of the past. Influenced by an early love of classic literature, her stories examine themes of loneliness, isolation, and the secrets we keep from each other and ourselves: how they protect us and hold us back, seen through the eyes of women strong and smart enough to save themselves and those they love...and passionate enough to be their own biggest obstacle along the way.
Books
Nova Scotia, 1832. Midwife Jean Langille’s first love ended in quiet scandal: all she wants is to be left alone in her cottage by the shore, to do her work and forget she ever knew how to love at all.
Until a woman appears in the salt marsh behind Jean’s home in the dead of night. Beautiful and enigmatic, Muirin barely speaks a word of English. As Jean picks apart the knot of her silence and their connection deepens, she's stricken with growing unease that the woman's marriage to a reclusive fisherman may not be all it seems.
When Jean’s past comes calling, stirring up old rumours and drawing her relationship with Muirin into question, she finds herself caught up in a deadly foxhunt with a desperate man, in search of a stolen treasure. In this re-imagining of the selkie wife folktale, Jean must brave the depths of her own heart to save the woman she loves and untangle the secrets binding her before they become a net to drag down Jean and Muirin both. (Releases 4/6/24 from Dell/RHC)
Works-In-Progress
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Bio
Born and raised a voracious reader of anything she could get her hands on in rural Nova Scotia, Rose has an overactive imagination and once fell off the roof of her house trying to re-enact Anne of Green Gables. She's continued to be entertainingly foolhardy since, graduating theatre school in NYC, apprenticing at a pâtisserie in rural France, and moonlighting as an usher and bartender in Toronto. Her hobbies include yoga, dance, singing, searching out amazing coffee and croissants, and making niche jokes about Victor Hugo on the internet. She's mildly obsessed with the idea of one day owning a large dog, several chickens, and maybe a goat.
Contact
For inquiries contact agent Jill Marr, Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.
Email: jill@dijkstraagency.com
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