Sandra Newman’s novel, The Heavens, is a mind-expanding and entertaining fantasy set between different worlds and times: a utopian 21st Century New York and plague-ridden Elizabethan England, where the heroine imagines herself to be Emilia, the “Dark Lady” of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Can she and Will (as in Shakespeare) avert the imminent disaster of September 11, 2001, by the power of creativity? She discusses the inspiration for her bewitching novel with Regina Marler, author or Bloomsbury Pie.
