After Mia Fredricksen's husband of thirty years asks for a pause - so he can indulge his infatuation with a young French colleague - she cracks up (briefly), rages (deeply), then decamps to her prairie childhood home.
There, gradually, she is drawn into the lives of those around her: her mother's circle of feisty widows; the young woman next door; and the diabolical teenage girls in her poetry class. By the end of the summer without men, Mia knows what's worth fighting for - and on whose terms.
Provocative, mordant, and fiercely intelligent, this is a gloriously vivacious tragi-comedy about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old war between the sexes.
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- Year Published:
- 2011
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781444720259
- Number of Pages:
- 224
- Publication Date:
- 16/06/2011
- Publisher:
- Hodder Stoughton
- Authors:
- Hustvedt, Siri
- Illustrations Note:
- 4 B&W
- Publication Date:
- 16/06/2011
- Publisher:
- Hodder & Stoughton
- SKU:
- 9781444720259