Mrs. Hemingway: Winner of the British Library Writer’s Award Paperback – 1 January 2015 by Naomi Wood

Naomi Wood . Picador . English

Mrs. Hemingway is so beautifully written, and evocative, that I could not put it down until the last page.' – Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You. A Richard and Judy Book Club selection. In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge and drink gin. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife. Fife is Hadley’s best friend. She is also Ernest’s lover. Hadley is the first Mrs. Hemingway, but neither she nor Fife will be the last. Over the ensuing decades, Ernest’s literary career will blaze a trail, but his marriages will be ignited by passion and deceit. Four extraordinary women will learn what it means to love the most famous writer of his generation, and each will be forced to ask herself how far she will go to remain his wife . . . Luminous and intoxicating, Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood portrays real lives with rare intimacy and plumbs the depths of the human heart.

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About the Author

Hi! I'm an author living and working in Norwich, UK. I've written three novels: The Godless Boys, Mrs. Hemingway and The Hiding Game. Mrs Hemingway won a Jerwood Prize, and was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. It was also a Richard and Judy bookclub choice. The Hiding Game, set in the Bauhaus in the 1920s, was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and shortlisted for a HWA Gold Crown. My work has been translated into sixteen languages, which is pretty cool. My new book is called This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, about a group of charmingly toxic women. It's out in April 2024. I teach Creative Writing at UEA.

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