FLORRIE

Anna Trench

RIGHTS AVAILABLE: TV/Film and all other rights controlled by the bks Agency

RIGHTS SOLD: World all languages, Jonathan Cape

Anna Trench is a graphic novelist, illustrator and teacher. Her graphic novel FLORRIE has been shortlisted for the First Graphic Novel Award and the LDC Comics Award, and a previous comic was shortlisted for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition. Her work has been published by The Guardian, The Spectator, The Royal Society of Literature, SelfMadeHero, Slightly Foxed and Cambridge University. She teaches English at a London secondary school and also enjoys playing football.

FLORRIE is a queer, historical graphic novel about love and women’s football, set around the FA’s 1921 ban. When Florrie’s great-great-niece discovers Florrie was a footballer in the early 20th century, she unearths a secret history both on and off the pitch. Match reports, photos and love letters reveal football games, friendships and love affairs across England, Europe and the USA. Florrie’s adventures touch on both invented and real events: huge crowds at matches in London and Preston, international fixtures, dances at lesbian club Le Monocle in Paris and the devastating consequences of a ban on women playing a game deemed 'unsuitable for females’. 

Photo by Christa Holka