- Title:
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Putney
- Written by:
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Sofka Zinovieff
- Read by:
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Annie Aldington
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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10
- Duration:
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10 hours 58 minutes
- Published:
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October 28 2018
- Available Date:
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October 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489460868
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
A bold, lushly written novel that will compel and disquiet in equal measure.
Ralph Boyd's first glimpse of Daphne will be etched on his mind forever. Dark, teasing, slippery as mercury, she seems neither boy nor girl, but sprite – something elemental. An up-and-coming composer, Ralph is visiting the writer Edmund Greenslay at his riverside home in Putney to discuss a collaboration. In its colourful rooms and unruly garden, Ralph finds an intoxicating world of sensuous ease and bohemian abandon that captures the mood of the moment. Entranced, he knows he will return.
But Ralph is 25 and Daphne is nine, and even in the liberal 1970s a fast-burgeoning relationship between a man and his friend's daughter must be kept secret. Years later, after a turbulent youth and a failed marriage, Daphne watches her 12-year-old daughter Libby mimic the gestures of adult sexuality, and is forced to confront her own childhood with a new perspective.
Putney is a bold, thought-provoking novel about the moral lines we tread, the stories we tell ourselves and the eyes of society. Written in lyrical, evocative prose, it is a rich tale of family, friendship, guilt and responsibility.
'Zinovieff's dark and disturbing novel delicately probes the lines between abuse and consent in this atmospheric, intelligent and ambiguous story.'
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'The ultimate taboo brought to life in a way that's thrillingly disturbing and evocative. I couldn't leave it.'
Mary Portas
'This is a really important book. I loved it. Thought provoking, emotionally complex, and tackling the topic of the day – the blurred area between consent and abuse.'
Esther Freud