I’m delighted to be able to say that my book, Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice is published by Counterpoint Press today in North America.
It was recently reviewed in the Wall Street Journal by Brandy Schillace, who praised its ‘tapestry of complex characters with conflicted motivations, woven together with the color of ghostly apparitions (and angry mobs)’. Last week, an interview of me talking to Books Editor Kate Tuttle about my research into unlikely Victorian superstars, the Fox sisters, Emma Hardinge Britten, Victoria Woodhull and Georgina Weldon, also featured in the Boston Globe. And today the book was reviewed by Christine Leigh Heyrman in the New York Times.
If you’re based in the USA and would like to buy a copy, Out of the Shadows is available from, among others, Bookshop, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, or your favourite indie bookstore. Or you could request a copy at your local library.
If you live in Canada, it’s available at bookshops including Amazon, Indigo, or your favourite indie. Or, again, you could request a copy at your library.
The (slightly delayed) UK release date is 20 May, but it’s available for preorder from shops including Waterstones, Blackwell’s, Foyles and Amazon at present, with preorders soon to be available more widely in the UK too.
Out of the Shadows is also available as an e-book or audio-book, via your favourite reading or listening app.
Finally: although the current Covid-19 restrictions have stopped me from having an in-person launch here in London, I’m so happy to be able to celebrate the release of my book in an online event to which anyone interested – anywhere in the world – is invited. I’ll be in conversation with my wonderful editor, Jennifer Alton, in an event hosted by the independent bookshop Brookline Booksmith. It’s on Sunday 16 May, and the local time of the event, in the US, is 4pm EDT. For anyone like me who will be joining from the UK, that’s 9pm BST. Tickets are free, but you need to register, which you can do here. Wherever you are, I hope you can make it!
Emily Midorikawa 
Congratulations Emily, it sounds as though you’ve got some great publicity so far.
Thank for those good wishes, Andrea! They are very much appreciated.