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Women
Chloe Caldwell
‘A beautiful read / a perfect primer for an explosive lesbian affair / an essential truth’ Lena Dunham‘I have meditated repeatedly on what it was about Finn that had me so dismantled.'A young woman moves from the countryside to the city.Inexplicably, inexorably and immediately, she falls in love with another woman for the first time in her life.Finn is nineteen years older than her, wears men’s clothes, has a cocky smirk of a smile – and a long-term girlfriend.With precision, wit and tenderness, Women charts the frenzy and the fall out of love.
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4th Estate
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This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2018
Copyright © Chloe Caldwell 2014
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by Anna Morrison
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Source ISBN: 9780008254919
Ebook Edition © August 2017 ISBN: 9780008254926
Version: 2018-02-01
Dedication (#ua08a0309-28c8-5ccf-a497-3bf7c81338cd)
For my mother, Michele
And in loving memory of Maggie Estep
Epigraph (#ua08a0309-28c8-5ccf-a497-3bf7c81338cd)
Girls are cruelest to themselves.
Anne Carson, The Glass Essay
Contents
Cover (#uac5dde5d-25e0-5d13-8aa6-e5ba4484b8b8)
Title Page (#ua28a3407-34ac-54d5-8ab3-9902a2f0e590)
Copyright (#ua1d35be2-2ee8-5b6b-b674-2d420139d0c8)
Dedication
Epigraph
What I know … (#ue2b3f507-706b-59fb-9bc1-33ed82bbf30f)
My mother still … (#u10455329-7ab5-59a6-a817-10209e94d271)
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The first few … (#u9c3a02ac-e259-5c05-aee8-61b624a8dfd0)
Finn and I … (#udbfc6b71-ba21-5324-83cb-4e57f4629edc)
I know I … (#u3adc0000-9d49-550e-831d-7202605f7829)
It is the night … (#uc0a3c839-1afc-5dc1-b64d-e2b2121fcf08)
I excitedly tell … (#ueb57d57c-8890-564b-956c-a3738fa14082)
When my father … (#uaff6d443-ccf7-59ae-b8ee-2ea278d1a3d8)
On an unusually … (#ua8fbda19-cc32-57cc-a879-fef4aa301e9c)
Things seem to … (#litres_trial_promo)
Just before I … (#litres_trial_promo)
As a writer … (#litres_trial_promo)
Finn gives me … (#litres_trial_promo)
Lesbians can suck … (#litres_trial_promo)
The quick transitions … (#litres_trial_promo)
I always want … (#litres_trial_promo)
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It surprises me, … (#litres_trial_promo)
On a park … (#litres_trial_promo)
A few months … (#litres_trial_promo)
Finn pretends sometimes … (#litres_trial_promo)
After sex with … (#litres_trial_promo)
Sabine visits me … (#litres_trial_promo)
Finn and I … (#litres_trial_promo)
My mom’s birthday … (#litres_trial_promo)
The day of … (#litres_trial_promo)
The first three … (#litres_trial_promo)
I can’t see … (#litres_trial_promo)
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I attend a … (#litres_trial_promo)
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Growing up, I … (#litres_trial_promo)
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I buy a … (#litres_trial_promo)
Things hurt worse … (#litres_trial_promo)
During my break … (#litres_trial_promo)
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Finn asked me … (#litres_trial_promo)
She breaks the … (#litres_trial_promo)
Mania hits me … (#litres_trial_promo)
Somewhere along the … (#litres_trial_promo)
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My mom visits … (#litres_trial_promo)
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The beach is … (#litres_trial_promo)
I become familiar … (#litres_trial_promo)
Sabine comes to … (#litres_trial_promo)
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At a literary … (#litres_trial_promo)
On my day … (#litres_trial_promo)
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The last place … (#litres_trial_promo)
The night I … (#litres_trial_promo)
Home. My mother … (#litres_trial_promo)
In the dead … (#litres_trial_promo)
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Acknowledgements
About the Author
About the Publisher
