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No One Is Talking About This

By: Patricia Lockwood
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
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Bloomsbury presents No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood, read by Kristen Sieh.

‘A masterpiece’ Guardian
‘I really admire and love this book’ Sally Rooney
‘An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster’ Daily Mail
‘I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book’ David Sedaris
‘It moved me to tears’ Elizabeth Day


THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021
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This is a story about a life lived in two halves.

It’s about what happens when real life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed through a screen.

It’s about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.

It's a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our time.

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‘An utterly distinctive mixture of depth, dazzling linguistic richness, anarchic wit and raw emotional candour’ Rowan Williams

A 2021 Book of the Year: Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Evening Standard, The Times, New Statesman, Red, Observer, Independent, Daily Telegraph

©2021 Patricia Lockwood (P)2021 Penguin Random House Audio
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The first part was a struggle. Very chaotic. I didin't get all those irritating and worthless thoughts. So unnecessary in normal life. The second part was very emotional.

Chaotic

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I think people struggle with this as its style is quite fragmentary and disjointed - but reflecting the fragmentary nature of writing in the internet (herein nicknamed ‘The Portal’), it captures something desperate and urgent about the narrator’s grapple with the personal and real, versus the synthetic and ephemeral world of the Portal in which she has carved a career, and an identity.

The vulgarity of some of the descriptions in the first half are necessary to establish the harsh, brazen world of extremes and binaries in the internet world, which contrasts with the complexity of the real world - the subtleties of the delicate personal grief which unfolds in the second half, overlaid with bittersweet joy of a tiny new life.

I cried at the end in the acknowledgements.

Even if it’s not your cup of tea, give it a chance

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I was thinking I had made a mistake buying this when I became absorbed suddenly. This is well worth a read or listen. Desperately sad and moving in the end.

Unusual book

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I thought it was a wry account of the life of a social media star, a humorous, dry and ironic commentary on the post-real simulcra we live in. It is, but also so much more. It's also about love, the most real kind of love.

Loved it

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I listened to it over 2 long car journeys. it is pretty intense but it really does have a lot to say. Absolutely made me sob

oufffff this one really feels. very unusual book

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