Issue # 21 of THE GENTLEWOMAN steps boldly into the world with the exceptional South African runner Caster Semenya leading the pack as cover star for Spring/Summer 2020, photographed by Alasdair McLellan and profiled inside by Susie Rushton.
Joining the champion runner are the audacious women of the now: the celebrated novelist, Hilary Mantel– giving her first interview after completing the final book of the Wolf Hall trilogy; the crusading economist, Esther Duflo – speaking in the glorious aftermath of her Nobel Prize award; the glittering Hollywood polymath, Tessa Thompson; the ingenious fashion designer, Bethany Williams; the Booker Prize-winning novelist, Bernardine Evaristo and the beloved British actor, Kathy Burke among them.