Sean Lusk: A Woman of Opinion, Transworld / Penguin, 978085752528049, pub date 4. July 2024

I liked "A woman of Opinion" a lot, reads like a classic, thank you Transworld for the early netgalley.

 A historical, fictional novel, based on an extraordinary colorful life,  it tells the story of a trailblazer of a woman, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, a feminist, mother, European traveller, poet, first to introduce smallpox inocculation in England,  free spirit  and adventure seeker, born into 18th century aristocracy, elopes and marries Lord Edward Wortley whom she talkes into becoming an ambassador in Constantinople where she has her first taste of differences of culture and freedom.  Edward is smart enough to employ his wife's charme and  connections, later granting her freedom to lead her independent life abroad while staying friends throughout their unusual marriage. Her "Turkish Embassy Letters" are classics and Penguin Classics  have her "Selected  letters" still in print.

For me it was a fascinating and captivating read  about what life was like even for a smart, rich and well educated woman in the 18th century. We've come a very long way..... Like the richness of the cover.