Adam's First Wife

About this book

Lilith, the woman said to have lived before Eve, has a story of her own. She tells it across thousands of years, moving through ancient civilisations and refusing to remain a footnote in somebody else's account of creation.

Jane and Robert Speller draw on Jewish and Mesopotamian traditions to give Lilith an imaginative history reaching across centuries. Their 1929 novel places her own voice at the centre of events involving desire, power and changing human beliefs.