Coltswood

By: Jules Revel

Narrated by: Abby Craden

When academician and artist Belinda Coltswood comes face-to-face with a colleague from her younger years, old feelings and painful memories resurface in uncomfortable and potentially transformative ways.

Professor Belinda Coltswood has made a name for herself. As the recent winner of a prestigious art prize, and the object of lingering rumors that nearly ended her career, Coltswood walks a fine line between celebrity and outcast. Though seemingly immune to both censure and accolades, Coltswood's capacity for cool indifference dissolves in a rip tide of memory when she finds herself face-to-face with a woman from her past. A woman she knew only as Wolf. While the Wolf in her office is hardly the same fierce young AIDS activist Coltswood remembers, this meeting has the potential to alter their lives in radical ways.

©2026 Jules Revel (P)2026 Tantor Media

So profoundly captivating.

This journey is like no other and one you don’t want to miss. A combination of incredible storytelling that brings you back in time and one portrayed so beautifully by the magnificent Abby Craden. I cried multiple times throughout and it was worth every tear.

A sapphic love story for Gen X

Amazing sapphic love story of two New York women from vastly different classes connecting during the AIDS crisis, falling in love, being torn apart, and finding one another again despite it all. Beautifully, cinematically rendered, I can feel the grit of the city, the polish of the mahogany sailboat boards beneath my feet, savor the contrast of the berry tart and black coffee in the cafe.

Non-linear narrative

The time jumps made it very difficult to keep track of what was going on in addition to a ton of characters to keep track of it was unpleasant. Abbey Craden did a wonderful job and is probably the only reason I finished it. The story itself was great. I just didn’t like the way it was presented so I only docked one star.