'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?

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017; THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE; THE GORDON BURN PRIZE; AND WINNER OF THE GEOFFREY FABER MEMORIAL PRIZE 2018

About the Author
Gwendoline Riley was born in London in 1979. She is the author of the novels Cold Water, Sick Notes, Joshua Spassky and Opposed Positions. Her writing has won a Betty Trask Award and a Somerset Maugham Award, and has been shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

Awards
Winner of Geoffrey Faber Prize 2018 (UK). Short-listed for The Gordon Burn Prize 2017 (UK) and Dylan Thomas Prize 2018 (UK).



Book Information
ISBN 9781783783243
Author Gwendoline Riley
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Granta Books
Publisher Granta Books
Weight(grams) 130g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 10mm