Waiting for a Party

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Claire Meadows is ninety-two, a retired piano teacher. She’s baked a pistachio cake, as she has for seventy years, and is waiting to be collected for the 102nd birthday party of her old friend Martin, a detective novelist. As she waits, her thoughts meander through a lifetime of memories – marriage, widowhood, friendship, longing, and a sexual awakening that came shockingly late.With humour, ambiguity, and sharp insight, Claire reconsiders the man she married, the life she lived, and the strange, hard-won freedom that followed. What really happened the night her husband died? Did she remake her life, or simply reframe it? And is desire ever really behind us?By turns tender, frank, and subversively funny, Waiting for a Party is a quietly radical portrait of an older woman who refuses to disappear.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-11-15
Mått129 x 198 x 13 mm
Vikt162 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor176
FörlagSalt Publishing
ISBN9781784633226

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Vesna Main was born in Zagreb, Croatia. She has a degree in Comparative Literature and a PhD in Elizabethan Studies from the Shakespeare Institute. Her works include the short story collection Temptation (Salt, 2018), the novella Bruno and Adèle (Platypus Press, 2021), and the novels Good Day? (Salt, 2019), shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, Only A Lodger … And Hardly That (Seagull Books, 2020) and Waiting for A Party (Salt, 2024). Her writing explores the formal possibilities of the novel.

The Literary Fiction You Should Be Reading There’s a slight Mrs Dalloway-esque air to this slim novel, which spans the hours that pianist Claire spends waiting to attend the birthday party of her novelist friend, Martin … As her mind circles around her numerous lovers – and her “found family” – she meditates on what makes for a life well-lived and re-evaluates her marriage: was it as happy as she is determined to believe? And was her husband’s death a stroke, or perhaps an accident that she had a hand in?