First Love

Resumen del libro

From one of Britain s most original young writers (The Observer), a blistering portrait of a marriage in crisis and a woman on the edge Neve 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?"

Biografía del autor

Nació en Londres en 1979 y publicó su primera novela, Cold Water , a los veintitrés años. Desde entonces ha escrito un libro de relatos y cinco novelas más, por las que ha obtenido premios como el Betty Trask Award, el Somerset Maugham Award y el Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. A lo largo de su carrera ha sido nominada a otros prestigiosos galardones como el Folio Prize, el Dylan Thomas Prize y el Women's Prize for Fiction. En 2018, The Times Literary Supplement la escogió como una de las veinte mejores novelistas británicos e irlandeses en activo. Mis fantasmas es su última novela.