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First Love

First Love

by Gwendoline Riley
Hardback
Publication Date: 02/02/2017

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Shortlisted for the 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction

Neve is a writer in her mid-30s 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?

ISBN:
9781783783182
9781783783182
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
02-02-2017
Publisher:
Granta Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
176
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x10mm
Weight:
0.24kg
Gwendoline Riley

Gwendoline Riley was born in London in 1979 and has been hailed as one of the most significant young British writers. She is is the author of First Love, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Literature, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize, and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Cold Water, Sick Notes, Joshua Spassky and Opposed Positions. She has also been awarded a Betty Trask Award and a Somerset Maugham Award, and has been shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 2018, the Times Literary Supplement named her as one of the twenty best British and Irish novelists working today.

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