Five Tuesdays in Winter
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
‘Moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart’ – Ann Patchett
‘Masterful, surprising, and satisfying’ – Madeline Miller
The stunning short story collection from the bestselling author of Writers & Lovers and Euphoria
A reclusive bookseller begins to feel the discomfort of love again. A widow whisks her daughter away for a holiday she can barely afford, desperate to help the two of them grieve. A neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students. A proud man rages helplessly at his granddaughter’s hospital bedside. A writer receives a visit from all of the men who have tried to suppress her voice.
The romantic but brutally raw stories in Five Tuesdays in Winter explore desire, heartache, moments of shocking cruelty and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. This profoundly tender collection confirms Lily King as one of our most beloved chroniclers of the human heart.
‘Vivid, moving, immersive’ – Marian Keyes
‘Intimate and revealing, unflinchingly honest and insightful’ – The Observer
‘Exquisite’ – Financial Times
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A middle-aged single father detached from the world but nursing a crush; teenagers adrift during family crises; a wife and mother pursuing an inexplicable, ill-advised attraction. The protagonists we meet in acclaimed novelist Lily King’s first collection of short fiction are varied—each trying in their own way to get the measure of the people around them, and themselves, with parent-child dynamics often looming large. Each character, though, is written with the kind of assured hand that pulls the reader into their story from paragraph one. The result is intimate, engaging and often surprising; however briefly, their devastations, realisations and triumphs become our own.
