First Love by Gwendoline Riley audiobook

First Love

By Gwendoline Riley
Read by Esther Wane

Blackstone Publishing 9781612196268

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 3 Formats: CD
  • 3 Formats: Library CD
  • 3 Formats: MP3 CD

  • ISBN: 9798212027540

  • ISBN: 9798212027533

  • ISBN: 9798212027557

Runtime: 4.00 Hours
Category: Fiction/Women
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

Catastrophically ill-suited for each other, and forever straddling a line between relative calm and explosive confrontation, Neve and her husband, Edwyn, live together in London. For the moment they have reached a place of peace in their relationship, but past battles have left scars. As Neve recalls the decisions that brought her to Edwyn, she describes other loves and other debts—from her bullying father and her self-involved mother, to a musician she struggled to forget. 

Drawing us into the battleground of this marriage, Gwendoline Riley tells a transfixing story of mistakes and misalliances, of helplessness and hostility, in which both husband and wife have played a part. Could this possibly be, nonetheless, a story of love?

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“At the heart of Gwendoline Riley’s short, dark, funny novel is a marriage in which bullying self-pity and perplexed self-abasement collide in a series of savage little jousts that ought to be unbearable to witness, but are in fact mesmerizing and perversely tender.” —New York Times Book Review
“Gwendoline Riley [is] a fascinating novelist…She takes a familiar theme of midlife minor angst and focuses in, closer and closer, until the banal becomes surreal, even beautiful. The effect is beguiling…First Love is an exquisite and combative piece of news from nowhere—which is everywhere, too.” —The Guardian
“Almost impossible to turn away from.” —New Statesman (UK)
“Gwendoline Riley writes beautifully and memorably. First Love is evocative, often funny, and very moving.” —David Szalay, author of All That Man Is

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Author

Author Bio: Gwendoline Riley

Author Bio: Gwendoline Riley

Gwendoline Riley is an English writer born in London. Her novel First Love won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Literature, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Gordon Burn Prize. In 2018, the London Times Literary Supplement named her one of the twenty best British and Irish novelists working today.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction/Women
Runtime: 4.00
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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