Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction!
""Brilliantly faceted and extremely funny. . . . While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know."" — Ann Patchett
The internationally bestselling sensation, a compulsively readable novel—spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark, and tender—that Emma Straub has named one of her favorite books of the year
Martha Friel just turned forty. Once, she worked at Vogue and planned to write a novel. Now, she creates internet content. She used to live in a pied-à-terre in Paris. Now she lives in a gated community in Oxford, the only person she knows without a PhD, a baby or both, in a house she hates but cannot bear to leave. But she must leave, now that her husband Patrick—the kind who cooks, throws her birthday parties, who loves her and has only ever wanted her to be happy—has just moved out.
Because there’s something wrong with Martha, and has been for a long time. When she was seventeen, a little bomb went off in her brain and she was never the same. But countless doctors, endless therapy, every kind of drug later, she still doesn’t know what’s wrong, why she spends days unable to get out of bed or alienates both strangers and her loved ones with casually cruel remarks.
And she has nowhere to go except her childhood home: a bohemian (dilapidated) townhouse in a romantic (rundown) part of London—to live with her mother, a minorly important sculptor (and major drinker) and her father, a famous poet (though unpublished) and try to survive without the devoted, potty-mouthed sister who made all the chaos bearable back then, and is now too busy or too fed up to deal with her.
But maybe, by starting over, Martha will get to write a better ending for herself—and she’ll find out that she’s not quite finished after all.
© 2021 HarperAudio (Lydbog): 9780063049611
Release date
Lydbog: 9. februar 2021
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction!
""Brilliantly faceted and extremely funny. . . . While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know."" — Ann Patchett
The internationally bestselling sensation, a compulsively readable novel—spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark, and tender—that Emma Straub has named one of her favorite books of the year
Martha Friel just turned forty. Once, she worked at Vogue and planned to write a novel. Now, she creates internet content. She used to live in a pied-à-terre in Paris. Now she lives in a gated community in Oxford, the only person she knows without a PhD, a baby or both, in a house she hates but cannot bear to leave. But she must leave, now that her husband Patrick—the kind who cooks, throws her birthday parties, who loves her and has only ever wanted her to be happy—has just moved out.
Because there’s something wrong with Martha, and has been for a long time. When she was seventeen, a little bomb went off in her brain and she was never the same. But countless doctors, endless therapy, every kind of drug later, she still doesn’t know what’s wrong, why she spends days unable to get out of bed or alienates both strangers and her loved ones with casually cruel remarks.
And she has nowhere to go except her childhood home: a bohemian (dilapidated) townhouse in a romantic (rundown) part of London—to live with her mother, a minorly important sculptor (and major drinker) and her father, a famous poet (though unpublished) and try to survive without the devoted, potty-mouthed sister who made all the chaos bearable back then, and is now too busy or too fed up to deal with her.
But maybe, by starting over, Martha will get to write a better ending for herself—and she’ll find out that she’s not quite finished after all.
© 2021 HarperAudio (Lydbog): 9780063049611
Release date
Lydbog: 9. februar 2021
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Signe
31. jan. 2023
Jeg kunne ikke lægge bogen fra mig og anbefaler alle - alle! - jeg taler med at læse den Fantastisk, smukt og sjovt - på en bizar men meget relaterbar måde - portræt af et liv med psykisk sygdom, hvordan det har indflydelse på alle dynamikker og erfaringer i livet og hvordan det kan føles som en ekstra fysisk tilstedeværelse i et parforhold.
Mia
29. apr. 2022
Simply brilliant
Matias
19. jan. 2023
Fantastisk skildring af et liv, familie og parforhold. Kunne ikke stoppe med at læse bogen. Vidunderlig oplæser.
N
15. jan. 2023
A good read perfect to enjoy at a speed of 1.25 :)Martha can be very agitating but like all imperfect humans her flaws make part of who she is - despite diagnosis.
Eva
11. sep. 2022
Kan varmt anbefales. Fantastisk oplæser
Susanne
13. feb. 2022
Oh dear, who/what made me put this book on my reading list?! Such a sad story, however well written and well read, so I hung on.
Emma
2. maj 2021
Strange book. Depressive and sad, but love too. I kind of liked it but then I didn’t??
L
19. mar. 2021
Breathtaking, wonderful, painful. Simply a must read👍
Helle
27. nov. 2022
Bestemt værd at lytte!
Li
31. jul. 2022
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