Three Women
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Three Women
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Narrated by:
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Lisa Taddeo
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Tara Lynne Barr
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Marin Ireland
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Mena Suvari
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By:
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Lisa Taddeo
Summary
Bloomsbury presents Three Women by Lisa Taddeo, read by Lisa Taddeo, Tara Lynne Barr, Marin Ireland and Mena Suvari.
The International No. 1 Bestseller
A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
'Cuts to the heart of who we are' Sunday Times
'A book that begs discussion' Vanity Fair
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn’t touch her?
All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town?
All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to watch her have sex with other men and women?
'I will probably re-read it every year of my life' Caitlin Moran
'Will have millions nodding in recognition' The Times
'As gripping as the most gripping thriller' Marian Keyes
'When I picked it up, I felt I'd been waiting half my life to read it' Observer
'The kind of bold, timely, once-in-a-generation book that every house should have a copy of, and probably will before too long' New Statesman
The book Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Alexa Chung, Jodie Comer, Reese Witherspoon, Harry Styles, Fearne Cotton, Caitriona Balfe, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sharon Horgan, Zoe Ball, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Davina McCall, Gemma Chan, Christine and the Queens and Gillian Anderson are all listening to.
Wow, as a middle age man, I wasn’t sure what I would make of this book. And one review mentioned that some of these women didn’t appear as anything special in their stories. But the descriptions of these three different women, Lina, Sloane and Maria, and their desires and love, which aren’t always the same things though that’s not always clear when you're in a world of either desire or pain. Lina wants French kissing and desire and a man who’ll flip her and desire her (but the man she marries isn’t that), Maria has taken her teacher to court (though only when she realises he’s made teacher of the year) and who seduced her when she was a child at school, and Sloane is into threesomes with her husband - she’s my favourite but Maria’s story is the most gripping. I thought these three individual yet interlinked in their themes were three wonderfully stories, were almost Chekhovian in scope, meaning and description. These stories also took me back to my own youth and the sometimes unrealistic, messy and stupid expectations and dumb but wonderfully excstatic moments of transcendence and wonder in a mixture of hormonal chemicals and a still developing and not always emotionally fair or wise brain. I was riveted to their stories, all are flawed and not perfect, but aren’t we all - though perhaps some have greater self awareness than others. Some of their decisions hurt and they make choices that aren’t always likeable but these are made on the way that men make them too. I felt sympathy for the men and women equally though I’m sure some will hate or at least despise some of them. A book to make you think, feel and hopefully become a little more empathetic to others. I empathised with both the men and women in these stories (all real) and was always aware that my feelings and thoughts weren’t being made with the emotional weight or feelings that they were feeling - and that changes everything. It’s a real page turner and the author writes beautiful prose and a few philosophically wise words that grip and enlighten. I loved this book.
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