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Paperback | 192 pages126 x 196 x 16 | 142g
The underlying themes of loneliness, secrets, family and a yearning for love intertwine these extraordinary stories from the award-winning author of How We Met. +420 223 009 949 I loved it' Pandora Sykes'Huma Qureshi is a writer I know I'll be reading for years and years and years' Natasha Lunn, author of Conversations on Love A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships, and the secrets, misunderstandings and silences that haunt them. A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships. A collection about mothers and daughters, children lost, unborn, grown up, grown apart, and the dissonance between lovers. naši zákazníci: hello@booktherapy. A daughter asks her mother to shut up, only to shut her up for good; an exhausted wife walks away from the husband who doesn't understand her; on holiday, lovers no longer understand each other away from home. The good news is you can buy them on The Feminist Bookshop audiobooks page!
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Reviews
BigTent BookClub
I can grow to be more comfortable around you. Yes, the stories seem to share central themes and tropes - I think borrowing heavily from the life of the author (working in magazines etc. You'll end up reflecting on all the things you don't tell your loved ones.
Amazon Customer
It's like grabbing poignancy by the stem and saying, 'it's ok that you exist. and it is is a way, multiple short stories of love. Contains all the usual twists and turns one expects of short stories, and to the book's merit, after reading nine short stories I quite happily gobbled up the tenth.
Huma Qureshi is a beautiful writer and has you believing that every story in this is a true story. These intimate stories made me realise, that none of us are very different after all. Her characters are so relatable despite majority not having anything in common with them.
This is not my usual read and with the title of this book I thought it was going to be a love story. A collection of 10 short stories (10-25 pages each), poignant but ultimately I found them to release me from the stress and burdensome guilt concerning what I don't tell my loved ones(! ) It seems this is something we can all relate to. '
A good read, and well-paced. I won't include any spoilers, but I found this reflective aid a good way to start a new year. . ), but which author is not culpable of that.
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