Women

By (author) Caldwell Chloe
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‘A beautiful read / a perfect primer for an explosive lesbian affair / an essential truth’ Lena Dunham
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‘A beautiful read / a perfect primer for an explosive lesbian affair / an essential truth’ Lena Dunham

‘I have meditated repeatedly on what it was about Finn that had me so dismantled.''

A young woman moves from the countryside to the city.
Inexplicably, inexorably and immediately, she falls in love with another woman for the first time in her life.
Finn is nineteen years older than her, wears men’s clothes, has a cocky smirk of a smile – and a long-term girlfriend.
With precision, wit and tenderness, Women charts the frenzy and the fall out of love.

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‘A beautiful read / a perfect primer for an explosive lesbian affair / an essential truth’ Lena Dunham

‘Her prose has a reckless beauty that feels to me like magic’ Cheryl Strayed

‘A breathless comet-book that commands an evening with your heart, and a next-day pass-along to all the women you treasure’ Bustle

‘One of the most endearing and exciting writers of a generation’ L A Review of Books

‘Heady, evocative and sensual. Caldwell’s exploration of relationships and identity blends brutal and fragile truths with great skill. A remarkable talent’ Anneliese Mackintosh

‘I''ll read anything Chloe Caldwell writes. She''s a rare bird: fearless, dark, prolific, unpretentious, and truly honest’ Elisa Albert

Biographical note

Chloe Caldwell is the author of the essay collection I’ll Tell You in Person and the novella, WOMEN. She teaches creative nonfiction writing in New York City and online, and lives in Hudson.

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• WOMEN has been praised by everyone in the US, from Lena Dunham (122,000 TCM) to Cheryl Strayed (150,000 TCM).

• Elle Macpherson tweeted about WOMEN to her 138k followers and wrote a blog about it.

• This is a novel about a love affair between two women. Radically, it is peopled almost entirely by women.

• It is devastatingly honest and insightful about what love can do to us. With its intelligence, candour, wit and tenderness, it will appeal to readers who love Maggie Nelson (16,000 TCM), Jenny Offil (10,000 TCM), Chris Kraus (29,000 TCM), Sally Rooney (2,500 TCM) or Lena Dunham.