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"Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It's the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart. From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a Brexit-paralysed UK, Kathy spends the first summer of her 40s trying to adjust to making a lifelong commitment just as Trump is tweeting the world into nuclear war. But it's not only Kathy who's changing. Political, social and natural landscapes are all in peril. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is hotting up. Is it really worth learning to love when the end of the world is nigh? And how do you make art, let alone a life, when…
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5 editions- Other · English · 2019Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 160 pages · 9780393357417
- Other · English · 2019Pan Macmillan · 176 pages · 9781509892846
- Other · English · 2018Audible Studios on Brilliance · 9781721372881
- Other · English · 2018Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 160 pages · 9780393652734
- Other · English · 2018Pan Macmillan · 176 pages · 9781509892839
Fiction, womenAuthors, fictionFiction, psychologicalFiction, biographicalWomen authorsFiction