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A Beautiful Lack of Consequence by Monika Radojevic

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A Beautiful Lack of Consequence

Author
Monika Radojevic
Narrator
Monika Radojevic
Publisher
Random House
Publish Date
20 March 2025
Run Time
7 hours 22 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Short stories, Narrative theme: identity / belonging, Gender studies: women and girls

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Across thirty striking tales, Monika Radojevic weaves together the surreal with the everyday, confronting the experiences of contemporary womanhood with a tender ferocity shot through with humour.


A woman walks into a bar, and nobody notices. A newly married couple are punished for their childlessness with an unsettling nocturnal invasion. A girl trades her vocal cords for a chance at freedom. A door-to-door salesperson offers the antidote to women’s fear – but it comes at a high price.

Bubbling with an urgent rage that occasionally tips over into vengeance, Radojevic deftly charts the moments that make a life: from the warmth of first love to the recognition of anger, and the possibilities that take shape as we find or lose our ability to speak. A Beautiful Lack of Consequence explores the ways in which the world bends and breaks women with the pressure it puts on them – and what happens when those women snap back.

Moving and irreverent, dark and otherworldly, A Beautiful Lack of Consequence is a blazing debut collection from the winner of the #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize.

© Monika Radojevic 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

Critics Review

  • Visceral, wild, and so beautifully necessary.

    Salma El-Wardany, author of These Impossible Things

  • Radojevic’s stories and fragments are so sharp-edged they could draw blood. Fierce, funny and angry.

    Catherine Mayer, author of Time/Life

  • Tender, humorous and moving

    Cosmopolitan

  • Fuelled by rage, these fiery, staunchly women-centred stories are frighteningly real, but given a surreal slant that makes them all the more memorable

    Daily Mail

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  • Radojevic’s writing is lyrical and imaginative, and is often written in the second person, pulling the reader into the stories, which – in some of the heavier-themed pieces – makes for breathless reading . . . Read it and be angry

    Mslexia

  • Praise for Monika Radjoevic

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  • Courageous, arresting

    Independent

  • Powerful

    Stylist

  • Radojevic's interrogation of the status quo . . . is not just interesting, it is agitating.

    Bad Form

  • Radojevic writes with an uncompromising fierceness, provocation and dedication to the physical body which acts as her most authentic, intuitive medium of expression. She offers with this collection a vital contribution to literature at a time when women's voices urgently need to be heard.

    HUCK

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Details
Author
Monika Radojevic
Narrator
Monika Radojevic
Duration
7 hours 22 minutes
Release Date
20 March 2025
ISBN
9781529955156
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Random House
Genre
Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Short stories, Narrative theme: identity / belonging, Gender studies: women and girls

Synopsis

Brought to you by Penguin.Across thirty striking tales, Monika Radojevic weaves together the surreal with the everyday, confronting the experiences of contemporary womanhood with a tender ferocity shot through with humour.A woman walks into a bar, and nobody notices. A newly married couple are punished for their childlessness with an unsettling nocturnal invasion. A girl trades her vocal cords for a chance at freedom. A door-to-door salesperson offers the antidote to women’s fear – but it comes at a high price.Bubbling with an urgent rage that occasionally tips over into vengeance, Radojevic deftly charts the moments that make a life: from the warmth of first love to the recognition of anger, and the possibilities that take shape as we find or lose our ability to speak. A Beautiful Lack of Consequence explores the ways in which the world bends and breaks women with the pressure it puts on them – and what happens when those women snap back.Moving and irreverent, dark and otherworldly, A Beautiful Lack of Consequence is a blazing debut collection from the winner of the #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize.© Monika Radojevic 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

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