WINNER of the 2024 LAMBDA Literary award for Best Lesbian Memoir Biography! 'A rare treat
... utterly fascinating' Julia Armfield | 'Compelling loving stories of lesbians' New York
Times | ' Full of warmth and hope - readable inventive and scholarly ' Sunday Times |
'Thoroughly enjoyable' Paula Akpan | 'Gorgeously quintessentially lesbian' Lily Lindon | ' A
glowing mosaic of shared experience ' Kate Charlesworth | ' A radical act of queer love '
Kestral Gaian | 'An incredible affirming book' Lois Shearing | ' I love this book' Alim Kheraj
Lesbian Love Story is a genre-defying history of sapphic romance like no other. On her quest to
discovering lesbian role models from the past Amelia Possanza uncovers seven incredible love
stories in the archives. Expertly blending her subjects' own words with richly imagined and
vigorously researched moments from recorded archives and other fragments Possanza weaves
together a vivid narrative around the construction of lesbianism. She takes us with her as she
uncovers each lesbian's story yearning and longing alongside them and growing into her own
queerness. This is a celebration of women who love women - sapphics - and a paean to those who
have long existed outside of traditional definitions of sexuality and gender defying the
confines of heteronormativity. Each of the lesbians in this collection moved through the world
in their own way and helped the world. Their stories illuminate a forgotten and demonised
history and show us all a new way to understand what love means when there is nothing material
to be gained.
