Three Women

A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

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Three Women

By: Lisa Taddeo

Narrated by: Mena Suvari, Tara Lynne Barr, Lisa Taddeo, Marin Ireland

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Bloomsbury presents Three Women by Lisa Taddeo, read by Lisa Taddeo, Tara Lynne Barr, Marin Ireland and Mena Suvari.

The International No. 1 Bestseller
A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

'Cuts to the heart of who we are' Sunday Times
'A book that begs discussion' Vanity Fair

All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn’t touch her?

All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town?

All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to watch her have sex with other men and women?

'I will probably re-read it every year of my life' Caitlin Moran

'Will have millions nodding in recognition' The Times

'As gripping as the most gripping thriller' Marian Keyes

'When I picked it up, I felt I'd been waiting half my life to read it' Observer

'The kind of bold, timely, once-in-a-generation book that every house should have a copy of, and probably will before too long' New Statesman

The book Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Alexa Chung, Jodie Comer, Reese Witherspoon, Harry Styles, Fearne Cotton, Caitriona Balfe, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sharon Horgan, Zoe Ball, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Davina McCall, Gemma Chan, Christine and the Queens and Gillian Anderson are all reading©2019 Lisa Taddeo (P)2019 Simon & Schuster

Lisa TaddeoMena SuvariTara Lynne BarrLisa TaddeoMarin IrelandBloomsbury Circus

Anthropology

Human Sexuality

Psychology

Psychology & Mental Health

Women

Marriage

Thought-Provoking

Scary

Inspiring

Funny

Anthropology Human Sexuality Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Women Marriage Thought-Provoking Scary Inspiring Funny

Critic reviews

The most important book I’ve read this decade, and possibly ever (Books of the Decade)

My best book of the year so far. And probably next year’s too (Jojo Moyes)

Controversial, detailed, spellbinding, upsetting, true and compelling in equal measure (Books of the Year)

Painful and beautiful, gutting and sexy. I don’t think I’ve read a book that has captivated me as intensely as this one, which I still think about, months later, in the quietest hours of the night

A book with the thrill of the new that you can expect to dominate WhatsApp threads, line Tube carriages and pop up in foreign Airbnbs for years to come

The biggest debut of the year . . . Groundbreaking

Captures the pain and powerlessness of desire as well as its heady joys (Books of the Year)

For anyone who thinks they know what women want, this book is an alarm, and its volume is turned all the way up

This book wrecked me, in a good way (Reese Witherspoon)

Whether you are a man curious to know how the woman in your life thinks and feels, or a woman who longs to hear someone articulate the thoughts you’ve never even admitted to yourself, Three Women should be on your bedside table

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“Love is not what you feel, it's what you do”
Wow, as a middle age man, I wasn’t sure what I would make of this book. And one review mentioned that some of these women didn’t appear as anything special in their stories. But the descriptions of these three different women, Lina, Sloane and Maria, and their desires and love, which aren’t always the same things though that’s not always clear when you're in a world of either desire or pain. Lina wants French kissing and desire and a man who’ll flip her and desire her (but the man she marries isn’t that), Maria has taken her teacher to court (though only when she realises he’s made teacher of the year) and who seduced her when she was a child at school, and Sloane is into threesomes with her husband - she’s my favourite but Maria’s story is the most gripping. I thought these three individual yet interlinked in their themes were three wonderfully stories, were almost Chekhovian in scope, meaning and description. These stories also took me back to my own youth and the sometimes unrealistic, messy and stupid expectations and dumb but wonderfully excstatic moments of transcendence and wonder in a mixture of hormonal chemicals and a still developing and not always emotionally fair or wise brain. I was riveted to their stories, all are flawed and not perfect, but aren’t we all - though perhaps some have greater self awareness than others. Some of their decisions hurt and they make choices that aren’t always likeable but these are made on the way that men make them too. I felt sympathy for the men and women equally though I’m sure some will hate or at least despise some of them. A book to make you think, feel and hopefully become a little more empathetic to others. I empathised with both the men and women in these stories (all real) and was always aware that my feelings and thoughts weren’t being made with the emotional weight or feelings that they were feeling - and that changes everything. It’s a real page turner and the author writes beautiful prose and a few philosophically wise words that grip and enlighten. I loved this book.