by Kate Summerscale · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781408830512
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«The Queen of Whale Cay» is Kate Summerscale’s biography of ‘Joe’ Carstairs, published by Bloomsbury in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Marion Barbara Carstairs reinvented herself as ‘Joe’: she wore men’s clothing, smoked cigars, had her arms tattooed and became a leading motorboat racer in Great Britain. In 1934 she retired to Whale Cay, where she created a small, self-sufficient kingdom. The book follows her life until her death at 93.
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and nominated for the Lambda Literary Award in the category for lesbian biography/autobiography.
A title for readers of biographies and stories of pioneering women, with an interest in twentieth-century LGBT culture.
Kate Summerscale is an English writer and journalist. She is best known for the bestselling narrative nonfiction books The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, which was made into a television drama, The Wicked Boy and The Haunting of Alma Fielding. She has won a number of literary prizes, including the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction in 2008.
