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Matilda Leyser
Matilda Leyser read English Literature at King’s College, London and…
DiscoverMatilda Leyser at Primadonna Festival
Yes, it sounds a bit dodgy, but what is Cli-fi and why should we be reading it? From spooky forebodings to real life dystopias, we talk to the authors bringing climate fiction to the top of our reading lists, including debut novelist Rachelle Atalla whose Thirsty Animals imagines the consequences of water supplies in Scottish cities drying up, and Matilda Leyser whose captivating debut novel No Season But The Summer places the Persephone myth – where the kidnapping of Demeter's daughter by Hades results in the changing seasons – in a modern world impacted by climate change.
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No Season but the Summer
Spring and summer are my mother’s time, autumn and winter are my husband’s. What is left for me?
Persephone spends six months of the year under the ground with her husband, king of the dead, and six months on earth with her mother, goddess of the harvest. It has been this way for nine thousand years, since the deal was struck. But when she resurfaces this spring, something is different. Rains lash the land, crops grow out of season or not at all, there are people trying to build a road through the woods, and her mother does not seem able to stop them. The natural world is changing rapidly and even the…
