By Any Other Name

Would you believe this is my first Jodi Picoult novel? I was intrigued by the historical angle: the premise is that the Elizabethan poet Emilia Bassano was actually the author of the body of work attributed to William Shakespeare. Meanwhile in our modern era, a contemporary female playwright finds herself embroiled in scandal from complications that ensue after she writes and produces (and lies about) a play asserting that same premise. I very much enjoyed the historical timeline of this novel, and the hours zoomed by as I listened to the audiobook narrated by a full cast including Jayne Entwistle, John Lee, and Simon Vance, with a particularly fascinating author's note read by Jodi Picoult.