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Naomi Wood

    Naomi Wood is an author whose works delve into the complexities of human relationships and identity. Her writing is characterized by a keen insight into character psychology and an exploration of their inner worlds. Wood focuses on capturing the nuances of the human experience, often engaging with themes of love, loss, and the search for meaning. Her style is known for its poetic quality and its ability to evoke strong emotions in the reader.

    Naomi Wood
    This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
    This Is Why We Can´t Have Nice Things: Winner of the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award
    The Hiding Game
    Mrs. Hemingway
    UNTITLED NAOMI WOOD
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      Successful event management in a week
    • In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge and drink gin. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife. Fife is Hadleyâe(tm)s best friend. She is also Ernestâe(tm)s lover. Hadley is the first Mrs. Hemingway, but neither she nor Fife will be the last. Over the ensuing decades, Ernestâe(tm)s literary career will blaze a trail, but his marriages will be ignited by passion and deceit. Four extraordinary women will learn what it means to love the most famous writer of his generation, and each will be forced to ask herself how far she will go to remain his wifeâe¦ Luminous and intoxicating, Mrs. Hemingway portrays real lives with rare intimacy and plumbs the depths of the human heart.

      Mrs. Hemingway
    • The Hiding Game

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.6(104)Add rating

      In 1922, Paul Beckermann arrives at the Bauhaus art school and is immediately seduced by both the charismatic teaching and his fellow students. Eccentric and alluring, the more time Paul spends with his new friends the closer they become, and the deeper he falls in love with the mesmerising Charlotte. But Paul is not the only one vying for her affections, and soon an insidious rivalry takes root.As political tensions escalate in Germany, the Bauhaus finds itself under threat, and the group begins to disintegrate under the pressure of its own betrayals and love affairs. Decades later, in the wake of an unthinkable tragedy, Paul is haunted by a secret. When an old friend from the Bauhaus resurfaces, he must finally break his silence.Beautifully written, powerful and suspenseful, Naomi Wood's The Hiding Game is a novel about the dangerously fine line between love and obsession, set against the most turbulent era of our recent past.

      The Hiding Game
    • WINNER OF THE BBC SHORT STORY AWARDIn my life, I had always been a good woman; controlling what it was that I wanted. But recently, I had started to notice my bad energy, and I began to follow it, wondering where it would take me . . .A woman has an unexpected outburst at a corporate therapy session for working mothers. A couple find some long-overdue time to rekindle their relationship and make an ill-advised home movie. A pregnant film director plots revenge on the actress who betrayed her. An ex-wife deliberately causes conflict at her ex-husband's wedding.This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things illuminates the lives of malicious, subversive and untamed women. Exploring failed sisterhood, dubious parenting and the dark side of modern love, this powerful and funny collection exposes how society wants women to behave, and shows what happens when they refuse.

      This Is Why We Can´t Have Nice Things: Winner of the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award
    • A debut short story collection from award-winning novelist Naomi Wood, exploring the dark side of family and femininity. Contains the story 'Comorbidities', winner of the BBC Short Story Award.

      This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
    • "Dino Moms" beleuchtet das Leben rebellischer Frauen durch kraftvolle Kurzgeschichten. Themen sind gescheiterte Schwesternschaft, fragwürdige Moralvorstellungen in der Elternschaft und die dunkle Seite der modernen Liebe. Naomi Wood präsentiert mit subversivem Humor und Wut eine unterhaltsame Erzählung über weibliche Erfahrungen.

      Dino Moms. Erzählungen | Gewinnerin BBC Short Story Award 2023 | preisgekröntes Debüt I »Eine wunderbare Autorin« Matt Haig | scharfsinnig über Elternschaft und moderne Liebe
    • Nežná staropanenská Hadley, mondénna dračica Fife, emancipovaná ambiciózna Martha, starostlivá a obetavá Mary – štyri zákonité manželky Ernesta Hemingwaya, nie iba ženy, tých mal slávny bonviván v živote oveľa viac. Aj o nich sa Naomi Woodová v knihe okrajovo zmieňuje. Nenazeráme len do manželského spolužitia, ale ocitáme sa aj v bohémskom Paríži dvadsiatych rokov, vo vojnovom Madride, v rezidencii na Floride, vo vile na predmestí Havany, v odľahlom Ketchume v štáte Idaho, kde svetoznámy spisovateľ zakončil svoju životnú púť – tam všade nás zavedie autorka, tam všade hľadá odpoveď na základnú otázku: Čo núti Hemingwaya uzatvárať stále nové a nové vzťahy, ako to, že nikdy nie je schopný zaplniť prázdno v srdci, zahnať nepokoj? Štyri manželky – každá iná, a predsa majú niečo spoločné: nesmiernu lásku k Ernestovi. Znášajú jeho vrtochy, pomáhajú mu bojovať s démonom depresie, prekonávať útrapy tvorby. Pani Hemingwayová je fikcia, no autorkin farbistý štýl v nás vyvoláva pocit, že tak nejako to naozaj mohlo byť. ..

      Pani Hemigwayová