A riveting exploration of female sexuality and desire, and the often yawning chasms between enticing fantasy and cruel reality, Three Women is suffused both with erotic yearning and raw honesty, and serves as a vital document of twenty-first century sexual politics.
Winner of the British Book Awards Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year 2020
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her?
All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town?
All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to watch her have sex with other men and women?
Three Women, which was nearly a decade in the making, is a staggering work of non-fiction for our times.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781526611642
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 298 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
The most important book I’ve read this decade, and possibly ever - Books of the Decade, Stylist
My best book of the year so far. And probably next year’s too - Jojo Moyes
Controversial, detailed, spellbinding, upsetting, true and compelling in equal measure - Books of the Year, Sunday Times
Painful and beautiful, gutting and sexy. I don’t think I’ve read a book that has captivated me as intensely as this one, which I still think about, months later, in the quietest hours of the night - Red
A book with the thrill of the new that you can expect to dominate WhatsApp threads, line Tube carriages and pop up in foreign Airbnbs for years to come - Evening Standard
The biggest debut of the year . . . Groundbreaking - Vogue
Captures the pain and powerlessness of desire as well as its heady joys - Books of the Year, Economist
For anyone who thinks they know what women want, this book is an alarm, and its volume is turned all the way up - Time Magazine
This book wrecked me, in a good way - Reese Witherspoon
Whether you are a man curious to know how the woman in your life thinks and feels, or a woman who longs to hear someone articulate the thoughts you’ve never even admitted to yourself, Three Women should be on your bedside table - Irish Independent
Here is a book that is not just going to create ripples but a tsunami in the literary world. It is the true story of three women, three different lives and their desires. Their lives are told through 10 years of... More
This is one of the most highly anticipated books of the year!
It is complex and so multilayered that it will have your head in a spin.
The three women all want different things. Lina wanted to be desired, Maggie...
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This book has very unique format, novelisation of three real American women’s stories of love and relationships with men. A teenager who has a illicit relationship with a teacher, a woman in a unhappy relationship... More
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