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The Paris Wife

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Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway and is captivated by his energy, intensity and burning ambition to write. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for France. But glamorous Jazz Age Paris, full of artists and writers, fuelled by alcohol and gossip, is no place for family life and fidelity. Ernest and Hadley's marriage begins to founder, and the birth of a beloved son serves only to drive them further apart. Then, at last, Ernest's ferocious literary endeavours begin to bring him recognition - not least from a woman intent on making him her own . . .

Critics Review

With vivid, memorable touches . . . McLain captures Hemingway's legendary charisma, and his fatal tendencies
Guardian
A beautiful portrait of being in Paris in the glittering 1920s - as a wife and as one's own woman
Entertainment Weekly
As much about life and how we try to catch it as it is about love even as it vanishes . . . utterly absorbing
Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress
[A] beautifully imagined novel . . . sharp, unsparing and delivered in a pared-down prose that the great man himself would have applauded
Sunday Telegraph
Hadley is a deeply touching character, dignified even as she loses almost everything she's loved, and making her goodness both convincing and interesting is an impressive feat
Guardian
Author Paula McLain
Narrator Carrington MacDuffie
Duration 11 hours and 26 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781405514569
Format Audiobook
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Genre Modern and contemporary fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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