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Publisher's summary
A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transformative power of desire, and the dissonance between self and place, by White Review Fiction Prize shortlisted writer K Patrick
In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls, a butch antipodean outsider arrives to take up the antiquated role of “matron.” Within this landscape of immense privilege, where difference is met with hostility, the matron finds herself unsure of her role, her accent and her body.
That is until she meets Mrs. S, the headmaster’s wife, a woman who is her polar opposite—an assured, authoritative paragon of femininity. Over the course of a long, restless summer, their unspoken yearning blooms into an illicit affair of electric intensity. But, as the summer fades, a choice must be made.
Seductive, stylish, and disarmingly wry, K Patrick’s bold and revelatory debut smolders with the heat of summer as it explores the queer experience and the force of forbidden love.
Critic reviews
“Katherine Littrell's sultry voice is as luscious and irresistible as Patrick's prose in this steamy coming-of-age novel about a young woman who falls in love with the much older wife of the headmaster at the elite girls school where she works. Much of the novel takes place deep inside the unnamed protagonist's mind as she analyzes her own desires. Littrell masterfully voices her internal turmoil, alongside the sexy and often fraught scenes between her and Mrs. S. Littrell's characterization of the housemistress, the only other queer person in the narrator's life, is especially poignant. The scenes between the narrator and the housemistress come alive with laughter and camaraderie, in contrast to the pained intensity of the rest of the novel.”—AudioFile Magazine
“Patrick’s deft manipulation of narrative time and use of interior monologue to describe the tensions among thought, intention, and action recall the work of Virginia Woolf... The drama of the forbidden affair keeps the reader voraciously turning the pages, but on a deeper level, the novel also offers an incisive and nuanced reflection on self-evolution as the narrator navigates the complexities of gender identity, social power, and the dynamic tension between private and public selves. An erotic yet high-minded literary achievement.—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
“Revelatory... Patrick makes palpable the compromises required by secret love, and though the romance is aching and well crafted, what emerges above all is a fascinating character portrait, that of a woman obscure to the world but radiant inside.”—Publishers Weekly
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- By: Deborah Crombie
- Narrated by: Michael Deehy
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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A week's holiday in a luxurious hotel is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid needs. But his vacation ends dramatically with the discovery of a dead body in the whirlpool bath. Despite a suspicious lack of cooperation from the local constabulary, Kincaid's keen sense of duty won't allow him to ignore the heinous crime, impelling him to send for his enthusiastic young assistant, Sergeant Gemma James. But the stakes are raised significantly when a second murder occurs....
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series readers, start here
- By connie on 02-09-13
By: Deborah Crombie
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Everything She Forgot
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- By: Lisa Ballantyne
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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They're calling it the worst pileup in London history. Margaret Holloway is driving home, but her mind is elsewhere - on a troubled student, her daughter's acting class, the next day's meeting - when she's rear-ended and trapped in the wreckage. Just as she begins to panic, a disfigured stranger pulls her from the car seconds before it's engulfed in flames. Then he simply disappears.
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Surprisingly emotional
- By RueRue on 04-09-16
By: Lisa Ballantyne
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Wonder Boys
- By: Michael Chabon
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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A wildly successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and seven years later he still hasn't grown up. He's now a writing professor in Pittsburgh, plummeting through middle age, stuck with an unfinishable manuscript, an estranged wife, a pregnant girlfriend, and a talented but deeply disturbed student named James Leer.
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A strong, early Chabon (sounds like grading wine)
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By: Michael Chabon
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Field of Blood
- By: Denise Mina
- Narrated by: Heather O'Neill
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Little Brian Wilcox's murder is the hottest story in Scotland. Every major newspaper crowds its pages with stories examining the crime from every angle. If only Paddy Meehan could get a scoop on the case. A nationally syndicated story would surely launch her fledgling journalism career out of the free local rag she's been working at.
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Wrong Accent
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I Couldn't Love You More
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- By: Esther Freud
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A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past.
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Obsession
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Carly and Rob, Jenni and Craig. Two couples, four friends. Betraying each other. Wanting each other. All of them have access to prescription drugs through the medical practice where they work, and all of them are fighting their own demons. But can any of them be trusted? And when the lies begin, can they ever be silenced?
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Your old time religion
- By patricia williams on 01-23-18
By: Amanda Robson
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London Fields
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The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing who is intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts; or the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch. As Nicola leads her suitors towards the precipice, London--and, indeed, the whole world--seems to shamble after them in a corrosively funny novel of complexity and morality.
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Big chewy novel, excellent narration
- By Sand on 08-21-14
By: Martin Amis
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The Killer Next Door
- By: Alex Marwood
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
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Everyone who lives at 23 Beulah Grove has a secret. If they didn't, they wouldn't be renting rooms in a dodgy old building for cash - no credit check, no lease. It's the kind of place you end up when you you've run out of other options.The six residents mostly keep to themselves, but one unbearably hot summer night, a terrible accident pushes them into an uneasy alliance. What they don't know is that one of them is a killer. He's already chosen his next victim, and he'll do anything to protect his secret.
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Incredible--but not for the faint of heart
- By Lesley on 01-11-15
By: Alex Marwood
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When You're Gone
- By: Brooke Harris
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1958: In a small town like Athenry, people talk. Everyone’s noticed that the injury which stopped Annie Fagan’s father from working doesn’t prevent him from hitting his wife. But a man’s home is his castle, and no one is going to intervene. Until Annie runs into Arthur ‘Sketch’ Talbot. Sketch is determined to help Annie, and the two soon fall in love. But Annie’s father won’t give his daughter up lightly, and Sketch’s attempts to save her will have devastating consequences....
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Twists and turns
- By Karen Gearheart on 09-10-19
By: Brooke Harris
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They Did Bad Things
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In 1995, six university students moved into the house at 215 Caldwell Street. Months later, one of them was found dead on the sofa the morning after their end-of-year party. His death was ruled an accident by the police. The remaining five all knew it wasn’t, and though they went on with their lives, the truth of what happened to their sixth housemate couldn’t stay buried forever. Twenty years later, all five of them arrive - lured separately under various pretenses - at Wolfheather House, a crumbling, secluded mansion on the Scottish isle of Doon.
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Impressed
- By Amazon Customer on 01-19-21
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The Unseen
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A vicar with a passion for nature, the Reverend Albert Canning leads a happy existence with his naive wife, Hester, in their sleepy Berkshire village in the year 1911. But as the English summer dawns, the Cannings' lives are forever changed by two new arrivals: Cat, their new maid, a disaffected, free-spirited young woman sent down from London after entanglements with the law; and Robin Durrant, a leading expert in the occult, enticed by tales of elemental beings in the water meadows nearby.
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Great book!
- By Dana on 09-03-12
By: Katherine Webb
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- Sara
- 10-19-23
Wonderful debut novel!
Wonderful debut novel! Read like poetry.
Particularly enjoyed that the protagonist wasn't limited to one gender's societal conditioning; refreshing and empowering representation.
Great arc in protagonist's story.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-23-24
Discovery Squared
This was a fascinating narrative. The main character is seeking for a place.....to live, to be authentic, to escape former places of judgement and turmoil. The world hasn't changed but her place might. She discovers friendship, passion and meaning.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-29-23
Excellent performance and writing
I found this book to be extremely well done. in many parts, poetic. The writing style creates a tension that is completely believable. The performance is top notch as well!!
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- JT
- 01-06-24
Bought on a whim 100% glad I did,
Incredible story line and dynamic narration. A wonderful study in identity with enough heat, angst and emotional substance that I listened to it all in less than 24 hours. I was so engrossed in the journey that the MC was experiencing that I felt like I was there. As a more masculine identified person(Butch) myself this was a very validating read. Wish there had been such amazing books in the 1970's. I am infused with gratitude for authors like K. Patrick who are writing books that help folks who feel or have felt unseen, spread their wings and be seen. I am hoping that K. Patrick continues to create such awesome characters with such important journeys to walk. This is the first work I have heard Katherine Littrell narrate, a wonderful voice with clear pronunciation and smooth delivery. I look forward to more narration from them too.
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- Nicholas
- 07-21-23
Tremendous performance
Haven’t yet fully processed the story, but one of the best audiobook voice performances I’ve heard.
The story: a slow burn, but when it escalates, it escalates. A really compelling foray into intergenerational queer romance.
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- Jackson Theofore Keys
- 06-29-23
Extraordinary
This is a difficult book to review. The easiest part is the narrator, who did an excellent job. I will keep her in mind if I see other books narrated by her. The story is much more difficult to review. The plot is quite simple: a young lesbian falls in love with the headmaster's wife at an all-girl's boarding school. The point of view is from the young woman. She lives in a world outside time, possibly the 1980s or 90s, but we are not allowed to know. No characters have names, except for Mrs. S, and her name is nothing more than this. All the other characters are named just by their job titles: the history teacher, the art teacher, etc. So our unnamed MC falls for Mrs. S, who much to the MC's shock, falls for her. But difficulties ensue for two reasons. The first, of course, is that Mrs. S is married. The second reason, and the point of the book, is that Mrs. S is mired her her own heterosexuality. Mrs. S is obviously bisexual but can not see outside the heteronormative forms of her life. She is stuck on what is considered right and proper, without regard to what she really wants or needs. And in the end, what Mrs. S wants and needs most is the stability of maintaining that heterosexual lifestyle - even if it means losing her real love in our MC. The MC has the sense to understand that being gay is not just what you do between the sheets. It's a characteristic of life that can not be untwined from daily living. Being gay is something outside of a binary opposite of heterosexuality - it is an entirely different way of seeing the world and living within it. Mrs. S can not see this, will never be able to see this, and that is the tragedy of the book. So we get to see the love develop and then finally fail. But within this narrative is such beauty of writing. It is lyrical without being ostentatious or complex. It is easy to understand why the MC fell into love and then why she left. And even in its heartbreak, there is a beauty of life lived, of growth, and of moving to a better future. This is truly a beautiful book.
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