Gwendoline Riley Libros

From the prize-winning author of First Love comes an eviscerating account of a toxic mother-daughter bond, grief, and the damage done in the course of a life.

Carmel McKisco is wry, volatile and full of longing: a twenty-year-old girl working nights in a Manchester dive bar. eccentric individuals all somehow tethered to their past - not least Carmel herself, who is nurturing mordant fixations on both her lost love, Tony, and her washed-up adolescent hero: a singer from Macclesfield. schovat popis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 and GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017 - A tightly-wound, razor-sharp novel that questions our competing desires for intimacy and for freedom.

Laura Miller and Edmund Putnam have been friends for a long time. Theirs is a happy meeting of minds, with long evenings spent huddled in an ancient pub by the Thames, where they share office gossip, reflect on their teenage passions, and lament the state of the world. Recently, though, Putnam has been harder to reach: he has lost his father, and the magazine to which he has dedicated his life has been hijacked by an insufferable new editor, Simon ‘call me Shove’ Halfpenny. Laura has her own problems: with a prickly mother and a tricky past, and in a beautiful and indifferent city, her day-to-day life is precarious. But as Putnam starts to sink into despondency, she must try to bring him back. A novel of enduring friendships and small mercies, The Palm House offers us Gwendoline Riley’s trademark keen observation and wit, and leaves us - somehow - with a curious sense of possibility.

Die Gefühlswelt der Generation um die Zwanzig schnörkellos und unsentimental Als Esther von einer Reise aus New York nach Manchester zurückkehrt, hat sie keine festen Pläne. Es gibt nur eines, das sie sich fest vornimmt: keine Entscheidungen zu treffen. Sie zieht bei ihrer besten Freundin Donna ein und lässt sich treiben, versucht erfolgreich, das Leben zu vermeiden. Meistens möchte sie nur ihre Ruhe haben: vor der Arbeit, vor der Liebe, vor dem Erwachsensein. Doch dann trifft sie den jungen Musiker Newton, der wie eine Art vages Versprechen in ihr Leben tritt...