Hero Buckley Katie (2025)

This contemporary love story follows a waitress and a chef who were once best friends and now live together in a studio apartment. She is also a selkie, Odysseus, and a cowgirl called Quick Fingers, while he is a really good man. When he asks her to marry him, she panics. She is many things, but being anyones wife is not one of them. Drawing on a rich history of myth and legend, the novel explores what it means for women to be supporting characters in a world written by men. How can you remain yourself when you are a product of other peoples imaginations? How can you love another person and remain free?