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My Spectacular Betrayal
As featured in The New York Times, Modern Love

We had compromised in our marriages, denied parts of ourselves, often felt lonely, but who didn’t? Weren’t we happy enough?

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A debut novel with the wit of Shakespeare in Love and the evergreen heart of 

A Christmas Carol

“A charming, comic, and ultimately poignant story about the creation of the most famous Christmas tale ever written. It’s as foggy and haunted and redemptive as the original...”

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From the acclaimed author of Mr. Dickens and His Carol, a richly-imagined reckoning with the life of another cherished literary legend: Mary Wollstonecraft – arguably the world’s first feminist.

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"A PROVOCATIVE, INSPIRING, AND TIMELY NOVEL.

Chronicles not only a great historical figure but, just as movingly, a woman, wife, and mother who learns to find love and home within herself."

NATALIE JENNER,  

bestselling author of 

THE JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY

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About Samantha

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Samantha Silva is an author and screenwriter based in Idaho. Over her career, she’s sold film projects to Paramount, Universal, and New Line Cinema. Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft is her second novel. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in One Story and LitHub. A short film, The Big Burn,  which she wrote and directed, premiered at the Sun Valley Film Festival in 2018. She was a 2020 Idaho Commission on the Arts Literary Fellow and a 2022 Bread Loaf Fellow. Her adaptation of her debut novel, Mr. Dickens and His Carol, had its world premiere at Seattle Repertory Theater in 2022.

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Silva graduated from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, where she studied in Bologna, Italy and Washington, D.C. She’s lived in London three times, briefly in Rome, is an avid Italophile, and a forever Dickens devotee.

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A debut novel with the wit of Shakespeare in Love and the evergreen heart of 

A Christmas Carol

Available now!

Audible Preview - Mr. Dickens and His Carol
00:00 / 00:00

“A charming, comic, and ultimately poignant story about the creation of the most famous Christmas tale ever written. It’s as foggy and haunted and redemptive as the original...”

Anthony Doerr, #1 New York Times 

bestselling author of 

All The Light We Cannot See

click to order

A debut novel with the wit of Shakespeare in Love and the evergreen heart of 

A Christmas Carol

Available now!

Audible Preview - Mr. Dickens and His Carol
00:00 / 00:00

“A charming, comic, and ultimately poignant story about the creation of the most famous Christmas tale ever written. It’s as foggy and haunted and redemptive as the original...”

Anthony Doerr, #1 New York Times 

bestselling author of All The Light We Cannot See

click to order

Contact

Book club inquiries? 

Email samanthasilva@me.com

For media inquiries, please contact publicist Amelia Possanza:

For any other inquiries, please contact

agent Emma Parry:

Tel: 212.421.1700 | eparry@janklow.com

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