Sisters

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From one of America's most acclaimed writers, an elegant and biting portrait of a marriage and a woman consumed by secrecy and jealousy. An unnamed narrator lives with her new husband, his two teenagers and the unwelcome presence of his first wife - known only as she. Obsessed with her, the second wife narrator, moves through her days presided over by the all-too-real ghost of the first marriage, fantasising about how the first wife lives her life. Will the narrator ever equal the first wife intellectually and sexually, or ever forget the betrayal that lies between them And what of the secrets between her husband and the first wife, from which the second wife is excluded The daring and precise build-up to an eerily wonderful denouement is a triumph of subtlety and surprise.

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Tucks prose is elegant. * New York Times Book Review *
A spare and compelling novel in fragmentsIts prose is clean and crisp, as tantalisingly minimalist as her apartment.
* Saturday Paper *
An artfully crafted still life of one couples marriage. * Boston Globe on I Married You for Happiness *
In her signature crisp, exacting prose, Tucks seventh novel haunts the territory of marital jealousy with delicacy and finesse. * Kirkus Reviews *
With her signature clipped and measured prose, National Book Award winner Tucks new novel is elegant, raw, and powerful. * Kirkus reviews, starred review *
Sisters slices straight to the heart of a marriage burdened by infidelity and obsession. Its powerful and insightful, recounted in an elegantly wistful style that makes the sudden climax all the more impactful. Plenty of style, and despite its slimness, a lot of substance. * Written by Sime *
A slow unravelling Unsettling. -- Age
A short yet sharp book As far as quick, nuanced reads go about marriage, jealousy and love, this seems unsurpassed and quite simply, lovely. -- AU Review
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Weaving together a multitude of literary references, delicate symbolism and inner monologue, Sisters is a well-executed exploration into the complexities of relationships and of how to live with unbearable imperfection.

* Culture Trip *
It took me a mere ninety minutes to read Lily Tucks Sisters which might lead you to think its a slight, inconsequential piece of fiction, but thats far from the case. A sharp psychological study of obsession with a neat sting in its tail, its completely riveting. * A Life in Books *
Tucks latest work is understated, seemingly simplistic, but full of innuendo, of the complexities of human relationships. * Otago Daily Times *

Author Bio

Lily Tuck is the author of six novels- The Double Life of Liliane; I Married You for Happiness; Interviewing Matisse or the Woman Who Died Standing Up; The Woman Who Walked on Water; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award; The News From Paraguay, winner of the National Book Award; the short-story collections The House at Belle Fontaine and Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived; and the biography Woman of Rome- A Life of Elsa Morante.