1868
New York City
Spiritualist sisters, VICTORIA WOODHULL and TENNESSEE CLAFLIN were independent, politically progressive free thinkers. They beguiled the suffragists and seduced the millionaires.They answered to no one. The Establishment vowed to destroy them. NAKED TRUTH or Equality, the Forbidden Fruit is their story.
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NEW YORK CITY, 1868
Spiritualist sisters, VICTORIA WOODHULL and TENNESSEE CLAFLIN were independent, politically progressive free thinkers. They beguiled the suffragists and seduced the millionaires. They answered to no one. The Establishment vowed to destroy them. NAKED TRUTH or EQUALITY, THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT is their story.
NAKED TRUTH - Short listed for the Goethe Prize
"Victoria and Tennie are compelling protagonists: fiercely determined, morally ambiguous and deeply complicated. Hayes' Victorian New York backdrop is a showstopper." - Book Life
"Hayes writes with such care and authenticity that the reader will likely be unsure where the history ends and the fiction begins." - Kirkus Reviews
"Carrie Hayes' interlacing of history with the narrative sparks an American story as well as a woman's story. She has made this pair of wily sisters and their slickster father vivid and timeless." - Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award Finalist and best-selling author
"An audacious debut" - U.S. Review of Books
"Five stars. Imaginative fiction is based on fact at its best. Divisiveness, just like the plight of humanity today, the historical and excellently well crafted novel, Naked Truth or Equality, the Forbidden Fruit has it all. ." - Indie Reader
"I absolutely loved Naked Truth" -Kim Taylor Blakemore, best-selling author of After Alice Fell and The Companion
"Naked Truth or Equality is astoundingly ambitious. It is a story rich in historical controversy and it is also one that once started is very difficult to put down. Hayes has penned a novel that is as enthralling as it is shocking. I thought this novel was brilliant from start to finish. It is fresh, it is vibrant and the story is
one that has been waiting to be told." - Coffee Pot Book Club
"Not your grandmother's historical fiction." - Bookbub
"Manipulation, ambition, and seduction rule the day. Readers will devour the twists, intrigue, and triumphs." Publishers Weekly
"An excellent, entertaining, and provocative read." -Editor's Choice, Historical Novel Society
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"Victoria and Tennie are compelling protagonists: fiercely determined, morally ambiguous and deeply complicated. Hayes' Victorian New York backdrop is a showstopper."
- BookLife
"Hayes writes with such care and authenticity that the reader will likely be unsure where the history ends and the fiction begins."
- Kirkus Reviews
"Carrie Hayes' interlacing of history with the narrative sparks an American story as well as a woman story. She has made this pair of wily sisters and their slickster father vivid and timeless."
- Gail Godwin
Best Selling Author
"Five stars. Imaginative fiction based on fact at its best. Divisiveness, just like the plight of humanity today, the historical and excellently well crafted novel, Naked Truth or Equality, the Forbidden Fruit has it all."
- Indie Reader
"I absolutely loved Naked Truth" - Kim Taylor Blakemore, best selling author of After Alice Fell and The Companion "Naked Truth or Equality is astoundingly ambitious. It is a story rich in historical controversy and it is also one that once started is very difficult to put down. Hayes has penned a novel that is as enthralling as it is shocking. I thought this novel was brilliant from start to finish. It is fresh, it is vibrant and the story is one that has been waiting to be told."
- Coffee Pot Book Club
"Not your grandmother's historical fiction."
- Bookbub
"An excellent, entertaining, and provocative read."
- Editor's choice, Historical Novel Society
"Manipulation, ambition and seduction rule the day. Readers will devour the twists, intrigue and triumphs."
- Publishers Weekly
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