From the bestselling author of The Wife and The Interestings comes a warm and immersive novel about ambition, power, women, friendship and finding your place in the world
Meg Wolitzer is the author of several acclaimed novels, including The Uncoupling ('tingles with playfulness and wicked observation' Independent), The Wife ('has you howling with recognition' Allison Pearson), The Position ('one of the best and most human books I've read all year' Erica Wagner) and The Ten-Year Nap ('as incisive and pitiless and clear-eyed a chronicler of female-male tandems as Philip Roth or John Updike' Chicago Tribune). Most recently, The Interestings was a New York Times bestseller. She lives in New York City.
The Female Persuasion has gone straight into my library of
favourite novels ever, on a shelf next to David Copperfield, Dinner
at the Homesick Restaurant, Lonesome Dove, and Love in a Time of
Cholera
*Nick Hornby*
'The novel’s timeliness cannot be understated...tight but
inclusive, and deserves to be placed on shelves alongside such
ornate modern novels beginning in college as A Little Life, The
Secret History and The Marriage Plot... But when all is said and
done, Wolitzer is an infinitely capable creator of human identities
that are as real as the type on this page, and her love of her
characters shines more brightly than any agenda
*New York Times Book Review*
The Female Persuasion is wonderfully dense and wise, a page-turner
that succeeds both at character and ideas. It felt true to life
*Guardian*
Deft and funny…trenchant, clever, displaying a pitch-perfect
recollection of the idealism of early adulthood and what life
subsequently does to undo it
*Guardian*
From the very first page of any novel by Meg Wolitzer, you feel in
safe hands. She is skilful and confident…she is exceptionally
gifted in the neglected craft of plotting...like a modern-day Edith
Wharton, she has an instinctive understanding that tragedy and
comedy are different sides of the same coin... How could you fail
to love such a writer?
*Mail on Sunday*
sympathetically satirises this complicated landscape of
contemporary feminism...warm and witty, and necessary...With
affection and generosity, Wolitzer exposes the limits of power
through a handful of well-meant lives and she leaves us uneasy. The
sense that we may have smashed a glass ceiling, but now are
standing in the shards, discreetly bleeding
*Observer*
No novelist I can think of has majored on the group portrait with
quite such verve, wit and sympathy as Meg Wolitzer
*Spectator*
Wolitzer is an astute observe of cultural nuance, particularly
around gender and inequality
*Sunday Times*
Wolitzer is an irresistibly charming novelist, a keen, affectionate
examiner of society
*New Yorker*
An ambitious overview of the women's movement...her writing is
peppered with wit and her send-up of various sacred cows is often
funny
*The Times*
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