As Young as This
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'A young woman's life, told through the men she has dated. With glorious attention to detail and emotional fluency, Dunn charts the ways in which we are built and broken by love' PANDORA SYKES
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An irresistible and achingly relatable debut novel for anyone who has ever had to let go of what they thought their life would look like and open themselves up to the dizzying possibilities of chance.
Elliot. Joe. Tommy. Nathanael. Wren. Oliver. Malik. Zach. Frank. Patrick. Noah. These are the men Margot has loved, liked, lusted over.
Since she was seventeen, she's pictured them like stepping stones - each one bringing her closer to finding someone to share her life with and, eventually, father the children she's always imagined in her future.
From her first sexual encounter, to her first love, from grown-up dilemmas to spontaneous thrills, she's soaked up every experience available to her, discovering friendship, joy and despair. Through all of this she's refined her search until she believes she's arrived at 'the ending' to her story.
So how did she find herself here, single at thirty-four, and about to make the biggest decision of her life?
'Raw, funny and beautiful . . . A really gorgeously observed novel about youth and womanhood' DAISY BUCHANAN, author of Careering
'Relatable, poignant and gripping ... I read it in a single day' LIBBY PAGE, author of The Lido
'Warm, witty, wise . . . A thoughtful and moving portrait that made me laugh and cry' CHLOË ASHBY, author of Wet Paint
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Firstly, this was a great read overall. Sadly the final plot personally left me quite alienated and it felt a bit too cliche, but that’s also what life is like for many women in this day and age. That’s what personally knocks off the 5th star for me, my lack of enjoyment of the final act if you wanna call it that. The entire premise of the book and division by chapter isn’t groundbreaking, yet this still is incredibly fresh to read. The way the author writes is magnificent, and this is coming from someone that normally doesn’t enjoy reading anything else than 3rd person narration. But the „you“ is exactly what sells this, it is the truth that this story and all its themes could one by one be that of any woman we see on the street, even myself. The way she wrote about relationships and emotions, the web with friendships family and romance and the sense of self is a fight we all have. A discovery journey some of us excel at and others don’t. It was refreshing to read about perspectives so different of mine, yet all incredibly female at the core so it’s easy to relate and feel with the main character.
Description
'A young woman's life, told through the men she has dated. With glorious attention to detail and emotional fluency, Dunn charts the ways in which we are built and broken by love' PANDORA SYKES
***
An irresistible and achingly relatable debut novel for anyone who has ever had to let go of what they thought their life would look like and open themselves up to the dizzying possibilities of chance.
Elliot. Joe. Tommy. Nathanael. Wren. Oliver. Malik. Zach. Frank. Patrick. Noah. These are the men Margot has loved, liked, lusted over.
Since she was seventeen, she's pictured them like stepping stones - each one bringing her closer to finding someone to share her life with and, eventually, father the children she's always imagined in her future.
From her first sexual encounter, to her first love, from grown-up dilemmas to spontaneous thrills, she's soaked up every experience available to her, discovering friendship, joy and despair. Through all of this she's refined her search until she believes she's arrived at 'the ending' to her story.
So how did she find herself here, single at thirty-four, and about to make the biggest decision of her life?
'Raw, funny and beautiful . . . A really gorgeously observed novel about youth and womanhood' DAISY BUCHANAN, author of Careering
'Relatable, poignant and gripping ... I read it in a single day' LIBBY PAGE, author of The Lido
'Warm, witty, wise . . . A thoughtful and moving portrait that made me laugh and cry' CHLOË ASHBY, author of Wet Paint
Book Information
Posts
Firstly, this was a great read overall. Sadly the final plot personally left me quite alienated and it felt a bit too cliche, but that’s also what life is like for many women in this day and age. That’s what personally knocks off the 5th star for me, my lack of enjoyment of the final act if you wanna call it that. The entire premise of the book and division by chapter isn’t groundbreaking, yet this still is incredibly fresh to read. The way the author writes is magnificent, and this is coming from someone that normally doesn’t enjoy reading anything else than 3rd person narration. But the „you“ is exactly what sells this, it is the truth that this story and all its themes could one by one be that of any woman we see on the street, even myself. The way she wrote about relationships and emotions, the web with friendships family and romance and the sense of self is a fight we all have. A discovery journey some of us excel at and others don’t. It was refreshing to read about perspectives so different of mine, yet all incredibly female at the core so it’s easy to relate and feel with the main character.