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With My Body
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Nikki Gemmell
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Free shipping Australia wide Ships from local supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback, 496 pages | | Published In: | Australia, 01 October 2011 |
Nikki Gemmell returns with another tour de force, articulating thoughts and feelings that most people simply cannot put into words. Told in her distinctively lyrical style, With My Body addresses the questions of what is intimacy and whether it is ever truly possible to know another person. It is at once a manifesto of married mothers everywhere and a highly personal story of one woman's sexual awakening. A wife, comfortably married and with several children, is contemplating middle age along with all the constraints of motherhood. Finding herself numb and locked down in an unending cycle of school runs, laundry and meal times, she cannot at first see a way to live with honesty. Even her husband, whom she loves, has never reached the core of her. Despairing of ever finding a way through her family to her own identity, she returns to the memory of an old love affair - the consequences of which she has never resolved. |
About the AuthorNikki Gemmell is the author of The Bride Stripped Bare. ReviewsBest-known for 2003's The Bride Stripped Bare (originally published anonymously), Gemmell revisits a woman's sexual awakening in her tender though occasionally overwrought latest. The novel follows an unnamed, middle-aged, Australian wife and mother of three living in England, whose loving but sexless marriage drives her to reflect on her passionate affair with an older man when she was a teenager. Compellingly written in the second person, the book comprises the protagonist's own writings to herself as she struggles to make sense of the past. Aided in her reminiscences by a progressive Victorian book for women-given to her and annotated by her lover, Tol, years ago-the narrator recounts their first chance meeting, when, as a teen desperate to escape her icy stepmother, she discovers a run-down manse wherein Tol is busy renovating and writing. Despite his protestations that she stay away, the young narrator persists, and soon a romance blossoms. But suddenly-after declaring his love-Tol disappears, and she's been wondering what happened ever since. Though Gemmell's beautiful prose sometimes lapses into melodrama, her gift for storytelling makes this a rewarding read. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd | | ISBN: | 0732282071 |
| EAN: | 9780732282073 | | Dimensions: | 18.0 x 13.0 x 3.0 centimeters (0.44 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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