Wild Card Book Club - Book & Brunch - Tupelo Honey

Wild Card Book Club - Book & Brunch - Tupelo Honey

Join us for our Wild Card Book Club where we'll be gathering at for a cozy Book & Brunch session. Let's chat about By Any Other name over delicious brunch together. It's a perfect excuse to meet fellow bookworms, chat about the book, swap recommendations, and enjoy a lovely meal at the same time.

Ticket includes a copy of By Any Other Name and $10 towards your first drink or snack at Tupelo Honey.  

• Come meet new people and have a great conversation!
• Enjoy a drink or snack at Tupelo Honey.
• Finished the book? Yes! Haven’t finished the book? Still yes! But expect some spoilers.
• Seating is limited to 12 participants, registration is required for each person.

If you have already purchased the book from Rediscovered Books, please email Rebecca at [email protected] and we will issue store credit equal to the cost of the book after you have registered.

About the Book:

Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is unlikely, in a theater world where the playing field isn't level for women. As Melina wonders if she dares risk failure again, her best friend takes the decision out of her hands and submits the play to a festival under a male pseudonym.

In 1581, young Emilia Bassano is a ward of English aristocrats. Her lessons on languages, history, and writing have endowed her with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling, but like most women of her day, she is allowed no voice of her own. Forced to become a mistress to the Lord Chamberlain, who oversees all theatre productions in England, Emilia sees firsthand how the words of playwrights can move an audience. She begins to form a plan to secretly bring a play of her own to the stage--by paying an actor named William Shakespeare to front her work.

Told in intertwining timelines, By Any Other Name, a sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire centers two women who are determined to create something beautiful despite the prejudices they face. Should a writer do whatever it takes to see her story live on . . . no matter the cost? This remarkable novel, rooted in primary historical sources, ensures the name Emilia Bassano will no longer be forgotten.

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