Lucky Red

'Lucky Red takes the western genre and shakes the life back into it. Explosive and intimate, dense with human connection, and above all seized with the need for freedom of the queer self: this is storytelling that grinds its characters in its grip, then throws them into the air to take wondrous flight. I loved it to bits' Shelley Parker-Chan, author of She Who Became the Sun

'Claudia Cravens is a masterful new talent and her debut is a breath of fresh air. Lucky Red is Cravens' subversive take on western fiction: it's a deftly told, absorbing coming-of-age story about a young woman's life in a Dodge City brothel, and one of the most heartfelt and thrilling books I've read in ages' Lauren Wilkinson, author of American Spy

'A renegade Western alternating between lonely darkness, feverish desire and thrilling action. Lucky Red made for such cinematic reading that I forgot it was a book!' Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face

'A thrilling and surprising story of deep human hunger and desire, of the ache that lives in all of us, and the sometimes violent lengths that we will go to feel seen and loved and understood' Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want

'Lucky Red is the Western I never knew I needed-where all the most fascinating misfit characters usually pushed to the fringe take their rightful places center stage. Cravens strikes the perfect balance here-queer, feminist, subversive, and a good old-fashioned freight train of an adventure story' Sara Novic, author of True Biz

'An exceptional historical tale of sex work and queer desire on the American frontier [...] Cravens peppers the thrilling plot with delicious language [...] and her sensitive portrayal of Bridget's uncertainty over her sexuality resonates. This is a knockout' Publishers Weekly