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Waiting for a Party

Vesna Main
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781784633226
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Nov 2024
  • Publisher: Salt Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

Claire Meadows is ninety-two, a retired piano teacher. She’s baked a pistachio cake, as she has for seventy years, and is waiting to be collected for the 102nd birthday party of her old friend Martin, a detective novelist. As she waits, her thoughts meander through a lifetime of memories – marriage, widowhood, friendship, longing, and a sexual awakening that came shockingly late.

With humour, ambiguity, and sharp insight, Claire reconsiders the man she married, the life she lived, and the strange, hard-won freedom that followed. What really happened the night her husband died? Did she remake her life, or simply reframe it? And is desire ever really behind us?

By turns tender, frank, and subversively funny, Waiting for a Party is a quietly radical portrait of an older woman who refuses to disappear.
About Vesna Main
Vesna Main was born in Zagreb, Croatia. She has a degree in Comparative Literature and a PhD in Elizabethan Studies from the Shakespeare Institute. Her works include the short story collection Temptation (Salt, 2018), the novella Bruno and Adèle (Platypus Press, 2021), and the novels Good Day? (Salt, 2019), shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, Only A Lodger … And Hardly That (Seagull Books, 2020) and Waiting for A Party (Salt, 2024). Her writing explores the formal possibilities of the novel.

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