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First love : a novel

Riley, Gwendoline, 1979-2017

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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?