- Title:
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Orchid & the Wasp (MP3)
- Written by:
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Caoilinn Hughes
- Read by:
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Caoilinn Hughes
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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12 hours 56 minutes
- MP3 size:
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563 MB
- Published:
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May 01 2021
- Available Date:
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May 01 2021
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781867532491
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; General Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
Award winning author
Debut novel
A dazzlingly original debut set in Dublin, London and New York, exploring the ethical underbelly of contemporary society through the coming-of-age of an utterly singular heroine – Gael Foess.
Orchid & the Wasp brings to life the charged, compulsive voice of Gael Foess – daughter of a self-interested investment banker and a once-formidable orchestral conductor and sister to a vulnerable younger brother – as she strives to build a life raft in the midst of economic and familial collapse. Moving by wits alone, Gael cuts a swathe through the leather-lined, coke-dusted social clubs of London, the New York gallery scene and birth-throes of the Occupy movement.
Written in heart-stoppingly vivid prose, Orchid & the Wasp is a modern-day Bildungsroman that chews through sexuality, class and contemporary politics and crackles with joyful fury and anarchic gall. It examines how we can fail our loved ones by what we want for them, what makes for a good life, what we are owed and what we must earn and how events in our lives can turn us into people we never intended to be. A first title of astonishing talent, Orchid & the Wasp announces Caoilinn Hughes as one of the most exciting literary writers working today.
'A gem of a novel.'
Elle
'A winning debut.'
The New Yorker
'Caoilinn Hughes is a massive talent.'
Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of All the Light We Cannot See