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?
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.View all by Gwendoline Riley
