Description
A raw and engrossing portrait of familial and marital dysfunction by "one of Britain's most original young writers" (The Observer).
Neve is a writer in her mid-thirties married to an older man, Edwyn. For now they are in a place of relative peace, but their past battles have left scars. As Neve recalls the decisions that led her to this marriage, she tells of other loves and other debts, from her bullying father and her self-involved mother to a musician who played her and a series of lonely flights from place to place. Drawing the reader into the battleground of her relationship, Neve spins a story of helplessness and hostility, an ongoing conflict in which both husband and wife have played a part. But is this, nonetheless, also a story of love?
Author: Gwendoline Riley
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 09/13/2022
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781681376905
ISBN10: 1681376903
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Urban & Street Lit
- Fiction | Literary
Neve is a writer in her mid-thirties married to an older man, Edwyn. For now they are in a place of relative peace, but their past battles have left scars. As Neve recalls the decisions that led her to this marriage, she tells of other loves and other debts, from her bullying father and her self-involved mother to a musician who played her and a series of lonely flights from place to place. Drawing the reader into the battleground of her relationship, Neve spins a story of helplessness and hostility, an ongoing conflict in which both husband and wife have played a part. But is this, nonetheless, also a story of love?
Author: Gwendoline Riley
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 09/13/2022
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781681376905
ISBN10: 1681376903
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Urban & Street Lit
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
Gwendoline Riley is an English writer. Born in London, she published her first novel, Cold Water, in 2002. Her novel First Love was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Literature, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize, and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She has also been awarded a Betty Trask Award, a Somerset Maugham Award, and has been shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 2018, the Times Literary Supplement named her one of the twenty best British and Irish novelists working today.