Courageous Women & Dangerous Ideas in Book of Forbidden Words by Louise Fein
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My guest today is Louise Fein, author of Book of Forbidden Words, listed in the Literature category on Art In Fiction.
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Premise for the novel: in Tudor England and 1550s Paris, a coded manuscript holds ideas dangerous enough to get its author burned at the stake, and in 1952, a former Bletchley Park codebreaker stuck in McCarthy-era suburbia is handed that manuscript and asked to crack it.
Why Louise went looking for a historical moment when a new technology spread ideas faster than anyone could control, and how the real Voynich…
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