DAVID QUANTICK in conversation with Stuart Maconie: THE HYENA

Join David Quantick in conversation with Stuart Maconie in conversation.

THE HYENA is the extraordinary – and fictional - story of an extraordinary artist called Deborah Parkinson and her adventures in the 20th century. She meets everyone from Frida Kahlo to Leon Trotsky, experiences Paris in the 1930s, New York in the 60s, Plymouth in the Blitz and Mexico City in the 1940s.

It’s a story about art, women, and identity. Why are women always labelled as muses while men get all the credit? How do you survive on talent alone? And what if someone was the greatest artist you’d never heard of?

Deborah’s travels are a parallel universe history of the 20th century. She’s a surrealist who grew up in pre-WW2 Plymouth where her dad ran a pub, then ran away to Paris where she met Dali and Picasso and Frida Kahlo, and fell in love with a mysterious artist called Marius.