No Season But The Summer Matilda Leyser by Matilda Leyser 9781922586971, 1922586978 instant download after payment.

Spring & summer are my mother’s time, autumn & winter are my husband’s. What is left for me?

Persephone spends six months of the year under the ground with her husband, king of the dead, & six months on earth with her mother, goddess of the harvest. It has been this way for nine thousand years, since the deal was struck. But when she resurfaces this spring, something is different. 

Rains lash the land, crops grow out of season or not at all, there are people trying to build a road through the woods, & her mother does not seem able to stop them. The natural world is changing rapidly & even the gods have lost control.

While Demeter tries to regain her powers & fend off her daughter’s husband, who wants to drag his queen back underground for good, Persephone finally gets a taste of freedom, joining a group of protestors. Used to blinking up at the world from below, as she looks down on the earth for the very first time from the treetops with activist Snow, Persephone realises that there are choices she can make for herself. But what will these choices mean for her mother, her husband, & for the new shoots of life inside her?

No Season but the Summer takes a classic myth & turns it on its head, asking what will happen when our oldest stories fail us, when all the rules have changed. It is, above all, a book about choice.

MATILDA LEYSER read English Literature at King’s College, London & then ran away to join the circus. She trained as an aerialist, working up a rope, collaborating with dance & theatre companies, making her own work, & performing in diverse venues, including the National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, & the Royal Opera House. After 10 years in the air, she decided to come down to earth & take up the far more dangerous act of writing on the ground…