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Author Charlotte Mendelson: ‘There’s nothing more fascinating than other people’s marriages, particularly when they start to go wrong.’Wife is the darkest, queerest novel I’ve ever written. It’s about how love can become a disaster: the story of Zoe, a young shy academic who meets, then moves in, with the older, glamorous Penny. Their relationship, from the outside, looks perfect, even enviable: after all, everyone wants a wife.
All Together Now music festival 2024: Stage line-ups and times, ticket information, how to get there and more I’m helplessly addicted to gardening: not flowers but things you can eat. I’m never happier than when discussing manure, or covered in seawater, or mud, or berries. In fact, it was only when I was writing Rhapsody in Green, and then for the New Yorker, that I finally realised how connected this is to my childhood summers in east Cork, at Ballymaloe before it was so famous.
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