Claire Meadows is ninety-two, a retired piano teacher. She's baked a pistachio cake, as she has for seventy years, and is waiting to be collected for the 102nd birthday party of her old friend Martin, a detective novelist. As she waits, her thoughts meander through a lifetime of memories - marriage, widowhood, friendship, longing, and a sexual awakening that came shockingly late.
With humour, ambiguity, and sharp insight, Claire reconsiders the man she married, the life she lived, and the strange, hard-won freedom that followed. What really happened the night her husband died? Did she remake her life, or simply reframe it? And is desire ever really behind us?
By turns tender, frank, and subversively funny, Waiting for a Party is a quietly radical portrait of an older woman who refuses to disappear.
| ISBN: | 9781784633226 |
| Publication date: | 15th November 2024 |
| Author: | V R Main |
| Publisher: | Salt an imprint of Salt Publishing Limited |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Series: | Salt Modern Fiction |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Narrative theme: Interior life |
Claire Meadows is ninety-two, a retired piano teacher. She's baked a pistachio cake, as she has for seventy years, and is waiting to be collected for the 102nd birthday party of her old friend Martin, a detective novelist.
Waiting for a Party features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Interior life
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Waiting for a Party was written by V R Main and published by Salt an imprint of Salt Publishing Limited
Waiting for a Party has 208 pages
Yes it is part of Salt Modern Fiction series
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.