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Product details
- ISBN 9781803513560
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 09 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Granta Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'A singular, devastating journey into the ungovernable reaches of the heart' Observer
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017
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?
Gwendoline Riley is the author of The Palm House, My Phantoms, which was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, and 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, as well as Cold Water, Sick Notes, Joshua Spassky and Opposed Positions. In 2018, the Times Literary Supplement named her as one of the twenty best British and Irish novelists working today.
