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Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback May 10, 2022 | 9781529383119 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Aug 31, 2021 | 9781529383096 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Dec 29, 2021 | 9781529383089 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
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Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback May 10, 2022 | 9781529383119 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Aug 31, 2021 | 9781529383096 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Dec 29, 2021 | 9781529383089 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
International bestseller Zoe Whittall brings us a fierce and tender novel about family and unconventional motherhood.
A rebellious young musician reconnects with the matriarchs in her family as three generations of women strive for real freedom in this brilliant novel of family, sexuality, and feminism from the acclaimed author of The Best Kind of People.
It's 1997 and Missy's band has finally hit the big time as they tour across America. At twenty-two years old, Missy gets on stage every night and plays the song about her absent mother that made the band famous. Missy is the only girl in the band and she's determined to party just as hard as everyone else, loving and leaving someone in every town. But then a forgotten party favor strands her at the border.
Fortysomething Carola is just surfacing from a sex scandal at the yoga center where she has been living when she sees her daughter, Missy, for the first time in ten years--on the cover of a music magazine.
Ruth is eighty-three and planning her return to the Turkish seaside village where she spent her childhood. But when her granddaughter Missy winds up crashing at her house, she decides it's time that the strong and stubborn women in her family find a way to understand each other again.
In this sharply observed novel, Zoe Whittall captures three very different women who struggle to build an authentic life. Definitions of family, romance, gender, and love will radically change as they seek out lives that are nothing less than spectacular.
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Praise for The Spectacular
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Zoe Whittall's engrossing and epic novel paints an indelible portrait of three women, each of them navigating the complex constraints of their bodies, their families, their obligations, and their desires. A daring and beautiful examination of motherhood, The Spectacular left me breathless. - Robin Wasserman, author of Mother Daughter Widow Wife
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Both raw and refined, The Spectacular is an insightful, poignant exploration of family and relationships from one of my favorite writers working today. A multi-generational story that's fully alive. - Iain Reid, author of I m Thinking of Ending Things
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I am obsessed with this book. - Samantha Irby, author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life on THE BEST KIND OF PEOPLE
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In our post-Harvey Weinstein world [this book] feels more timely and urgent than ever. . . . It draws an elegant line between rape culture, patriarchy, and privilege. - Claire Cameron, The Millions on THE BEST KIND OF PEOPLE
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A powerful page-turner. - Cosmopolitan on THE BEST KIND OF PEOPLE
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