Alex Myers is a writer, teacher, and speaker. PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS WORKS BY ALEX MYERS 'Remarkable.' New York Times. Fantasy and historical fiction readers will delight in this mythical contribution to Arthuriana.' Publishers Weekly. We can form our own selves, despite what Nature intends.’ Chapter Four, The Story of Silence, Alex Myersīut on top of all that, The Story of Silence is a fun fairy tale of knights and minstrels that balances the wonders of magic with the mundanity of everyday medieval life. Review Quotes 'Myers' prose is utterly enchanting. We can form ourselves, through our labour, through our love, through our desire. ‘Nature might have given you delicate hands, but if you work all day with wood, what happens?’ He lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two cats. Alex consults with schools across the country and around the world on the topic of transgender identity and gender inclusion. ‘Nature is but the mould that forms us,’ the nymph said. His debut fantasy novel, The Story of Silence, takes a 13th century French poem as its basis.

Gender and sexuality are issues kept hidden, the secrecy heightened by Silence’s high-profile position as the earl’s only child and the medieval setting with entrenched classes and gender roles. The gentle pacing allows the reader to grow up with Silence while experiencing their inner struggle to do what is demanded of them versus what is true. There was once, long ago, a foolish king who decreed that women should not, and would. Taking the original French legend as his starting point, The Story of Silence is a rich, multilayered new story for today’s worldsure to delight fans of Uprooted and The Bear and the Nightingale.

I didn’t see how The Story of Silence could hold up to my sky-high expectations from these two comparison titles, but it did and I loved it… The Story of Silence Alex Myers HarperCollins UK, Fiction - 464 pages 0 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified A. A knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dark inns. Katherine Arden’s The Bear and the Nightingale was another book I devoured last year – the first in the Winternight Trilogy which weaves stories of Russian folklore in an atmospheric tale of adventure, wildness, love, loss, magic, daring, difficult decisions, and moral ambiguity.

The Story of Silence by Alex Myers