I was very kindly given an advance audiobook copy of this book via Netgalley and Octopus Audio.

I wasn't 100% sure whether this was genuine or satire (the author's a comedian, it really was a 50/50 chance) and I am THRILLED to say it is the former. More importantly, it's a book about historical women you genuinely don't see on lists of 'amazing women in history'. Eleanor Morton has a wonderful writing style - and funny, it's very funny - whilst also putting in a huge amount of historical research. I liked the angle about the life lessons we can learn from these women as they generally focus on things we could ACTUALLY achieve as normal human beings rather than, like, go to the moon or sail around the globe. Highly recommend this audiobook as the author narrates it herself and it just adds another layer of goodness to an already great book.

'Life Lessons From Historical Women' is available from August 15th.