Natasha Siegel

1 month ago | entertainment-mag.com | Cat Sebastian |Adriana Herrera |Natasha Siegel |Annick Trent

Writing a list of queer historical romances feels half like writing a manifesto and half like writing a eulogy. Here are the love stories we created; here are our voices and hopes and desires, when we were still allowed to openly name them. Queer literary history has never been simple — even the parts of it I’ve personally lived through have contained incredible transformations — but what frightens me are the people who want to make tragedy the central queer experience again.

1 month ago | newspub.live | Cat Sebastian |Adriana Herrera |Natasha Siegel |Annick Trent

Writing a list of queer historical romances feels half like writing a manifesto and half like writing a eulogy. Here are the love stories we created; here are our voices and hopes and desires, when we were still allowed to openly name them. Queer literary history has never been simple — even the parts of it I’ve personally lived through have contained incredible transformations — but what frightens me are the people who want to make tragedy the central queer experience again.

May 5, 2024 | audiofilemagazine.com | Natasha Siegel

Fiona Hardingham and Matt Haynes deliver a fantastic performance as two historical characters who come together despite their very different hardships. In 1666, the plague has left Cecilia a widow shortly after her marriage. David, a foreign Jewish doctor, is hoping to treat Cecilia's mental health. Initially, the protagonists have such different backgrounds that they might as well be from separate novels, but when they meet, the narrators create a stunning duet.

Mar 11, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Natasha Siegel

The best his­tor­i­cal fic­tion is utter­ly trans­portive, but it also has a uni­ver­sal­i­ty to it — a shared thread of empa­thy that ties us to the past. In Jew­ish his­tor­i­cal fic­tion, I have often found that thread not only in sto­ries of resis­tance and prej­u­dice, but also in those of pas­sion and joy. My forth­com­ing nov­el, The Phoenix Bride, is a love sto­ry set in sev­en­teenth-cen­tu­ry Eng­land about a Por­tuguese Jew­ish doc­tor and a young wid­ow.

Jan 30, 2024 | libraryjournal.com | Natasha Siegel

Set in 17th-century London, this sumptuous romance tells the story of two star-crossed lovers drawn together under tumultuous circumstances. Cecilia, a young noble widow, has recently lost her beloved husband to the bubonic plague. David, a Jewish doctor recently emigrated from Portugal in the hope of living his life free from religious persecution for the first time, is carrying the weight of his own past tragedies.