First Love

Resumen del libro

Neve is a writer in her mid-30s married to an older man, Edwyn. For now they are in a place of relative peace, but their past battles have left scars. As Neve recalls the decisions that led her to this marriage, she tells of other loves and other debts, from her bullying father and her self-involved mother to a musician who played her and a series of lonely flights from place to place.

Drawing the reader into the battleground of her relationship, Neve spins a story of helplessness and hostility, an ongoing conflict 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.