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Writers & Lovers
- Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Summary
Casey has ended up back in Massachusetts after a devastating love affair. Her mother has just died, and she is knocked sideways by grief and loneliness, moving between the restaurant where she waitresses for the Harvard elite and the rented shed she calls home. Her one constant is the novel she has been writing for six years, but at 31 she is in debt and directionless, and feels too old to be that way - it’s strange, not to be the youngest kind of adult anymore.
And then, one evening, she meets Silas. He is kind, handsome, interested. But only a few weeks later, Oscar walks into her restaurant, his two boys in tow. He is older, grieving the loss of his wife, and wrapped up in his own creativity. Suddenly Casey finds herself at the point of a love triangle, torn between two very different relationships that promise two very different futures.
Lily King's Writers & Lovers follows Casey in the last days of a long youth, a time when everything - her family, her work, her relationships - comes to a crisis. Hugely moving and impossibly funny, it is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another. It is a novel about love and creativity, and ultimately it captures the moment when a woman becomes an artist.
Critic reviews
"Exuberant and affirming, it's funny and immensely clever, emotionally rare and strong. I feel bereft now I've finished." (Tessa Hadley)
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- Carol
- 09-09-20
Wonderful book!
First time I’ve read this author and was pleasantly surprised. Blown away in fact. Highly recommend.
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- the typist
- 17-06-20
Lyrical, illogical, illuminating
I loved this book! It’s like a tall drink of water after a long day walking through a very hot, barren cultural desert (think Palm Springs). The main character is silly, often ridiculous and so very very sorry for herself. The anguish and pain she goes through feel like self flagellation and that’s pretty much what we’re all doing every day of our lives. Beautiful. Buy it. Now.
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- AM
- 27-05-21
Ooooh, this is wonderful
I loved this book. Funny, clever, cute, deceptively easy and totally devastating. I wanted to be annoyed by a writer writing about writers and the highly exclusive world of it all, but King writes to well to be irritating. The reader was slightly mawkish but the writing shone through. Gorgeous.
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- Jane Johnston
- 17-11-20
Loved it
Well written - a brilliant, rich, satisfying, edifying, lasting and elegantly clever book. A rare find. Thank you. Highly recommended.
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- KLD
- 15-09-20
I Positively loved this!
I positively loved this book as much as I felt aligned to Casey!
To be 31 and feel so behind where you want to be in life in all aspects is no kind place to find oneself.
Lily King depicts each situation Casey finds her self encountering with more than just a sense of ...’I’ve been there reader’ but puts you right in her character shoes. I personally feel akin to Casey Peabody and hope this book brings the joy and reassurance to other creatives who have it in them to succeed.
I loved this, and will be looking through King’s back catalogue for more of her exquisite writing.
Writers and lovers ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
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- Mrs R G
- 24-07-20
Beautiful
This book has a small world, is beautifully written and moved me emotionally in many places. You won’t regret buying it.
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- RosieS
- 11-07-20
Lovely story with more depth than expected
When it started, I was worried it was just going to be chicklit - but it rose far above this, with themes of bereavement and mental health. The protagonist is charming and relatable.
A couple of uncomfortable attempts at accents, but otherwise well read!
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- Anonymous User
- 08-06-22
Consumed Me! 10/10!
I couldn't put this down. Beautifully written & performed. I can't put into words how much I loved this.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-05-22
I absolutely loved it
It is a must listen audiobook for women in there 30s with a passion for literature or anyone who lost their moms or afraid of it. Stacey Glemboski the narrator is amazing.
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- MISS H V JONES
- 28-08-21
couldn't finish
clearly, I am in the minority. I wanted so much to like it. I am starting to wonder if some books are better as an actual book rather than an audio.
I kept trying and trying but I just found the story boring, a non story. slow. hard to relate to characters. just. boring.