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First love, a novel, Gwendoline Riley

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First love, a novel, Gwendoline Riley

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

First love

Oclc number

955008713

Responsibility statement

Gwendoline Riley

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Rendered in dazzling prose, First Love is an account of the relationship between two catastrophically ill-suited people walking a precarious line between relative calm and explosive confrontationNeve is in her mid-thirties, living in London and married to an older man, Edwyn. At present they are in a place of relative peace, but past battles have left their scars. As Neve recalls the decisions that led her to this marriage, she describes other loves and other debts -- her bullying father and her self-involved mother, a musician who played her, and a series of lonely flights from place to place. Drawing us into the battleground of these relationships, Gwendoline Riley spins a story of helplessness and hostility, of mistakes and misalliances in which both husband and wife have played a part. But is this, nonetheless, also a story of love? -- Provided by publisher

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