Mrs. Hemingway: A Richard and Judy Book Club Selection
Feb 2014 · Pan Macmillan
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'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.
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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3.8
11 reviews
Ann Turman
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May 27, 2024
Doesn't seem to be based on what actually happened, especially after reading Martha Gellhorn's books I'm absolutely sure the scene in this book where she meets Mary in Paris never ever could have taken place - so this whole book seems fictional exploitation of these real life women.
Nick Stanton
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June 13, 2014
Everyone says this book is well researched and it is, impeccably, but it's really so blooming brilliant because it adds something to Hemingway's stories. There's no reading Hemingway without his public profile getting in the way, this books adds a lot to that. As it does for the Mrs Hemingways. Yeah it's imagined but it's got some truth throughout it.
About the author
Naomi Wood is the bestselling author of The Hiding Game, The Godless Boys and the award-winning Mrs. Hemingway, which won the British Library Writer’s Award and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Award. It was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club. Her work is available in sixteen languages. She teaches at the University of East Anglia and lives in Norwich with her family.
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