Shelf Life - Couverture rigide

Franchini, Livia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0857526669 ISBN 13 : 9780857526663

Editeur : Doubleday, 2019

Synopsis

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'An impressive, Sally Rooney-esque debut novel' New Statesman

'Shelf Life is whip-smart, slyly heartbreaking, and I felt the truth of it in my bones. Franchini dissects ideas of love, dating and identity in a way that feels both ruthless and humane. I loved it.'
Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure

Launching an intelligent, perceptive new voice in fiction, Shelf Life is the exquisite, heart-wrenching story of a woman rebuilding herself on her own terms.

Ruth is thirty years old. She works as a nurse in a care home and her fiancé has just broken up with her. The only thing she has left of him is their shopping list for the upcoming week.

And so she uses that list to tell her story. Starting with six eggs, and working through spaghetti and strawberries, and apples and tea bags, Ruth discovers that her identity has been crafted from the people she serves; her patients, her friends, and, most of all, her partner of ten years. Without him, she needs to find out – with conditioner and single cream and a lot of sugar – who she is when she stands alone.

'A Bridget Jones for cynical souls' Natasha Bell, author of The Perfect Wife

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Livia Franchini is a writer and translator from Tuscany, Italy, whose short stories have been published in numerous anthologies. Livia is also an inaugural writer-in-residence for the Connecting Emerging Literary Artist project. She lives in London and is completing a PhD in experimental women’s writing at Goldsmiths University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Doubleday
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0857526669
• ISBN 13: 9780857526663
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible