Daughter of the Sun

<p>From the gentle rivers of Shropshire to the heat-baked seas of Greece, <em>Daughter of the Sun</em> radiates with mothers and tracks our orbits around them.</p><p>Split into two parts, a sonnet sequence recounts Spence’s time reconnecting with her estranged mother – caring for her through illness and grieving her passing – before a bold rewriting of the myths around Medea reimagines her not as a murderous witch but a child-free scientist ahead of her time.</p><p>With the power and salve of the natural world always close by, <em>Daughter of the Sun</em> contends with being a mother and a daughter, and also what it means to liberate ourselves of those identities and write our own myths full of freedom and possibility.</p>