Wifedom
- Author Anna Funder
- Narrator Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood, Jane Slavin
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date 17 August 2023
- Run Time 12 hours and 40 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: writers, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Social discrimination and equal treatment.
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A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time
Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own . . .
When she uncovers his forgotten wife, it's a revelation. Eileen O'Shaughnessy's literary brilliance shaped Orwell's work and her practical nous saved his life. But why - and how - was she written out of the story?
Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder recreates the Orwells' marriage, through the Spanish Civil War and WW II in London. As she rolls up the screen concealing Orwell's private life she is led to question what it takes to be a writer - and what it is to be a wife.
Compelling and utterly original, Wifedom speaks to the unsung work of women everywhere today, while offering a breathtakingly intimate view of one of the most important literary marriages of the 20th century. It is a book that speaks to our present moment as much as it illuminates the past.
PRAISE FOR ANNA FUNDER
'Funder skilfully deploys fictional techniques to make the material jump off the page: crafted scenes with their own story-arcs, naturalistic dialogue, fully-realised characters with their own plotlines' Independent on Sunday
'Meticulous and compassionate' London Review of Books
'Rigorously researched, tenderly told' Independent
©2023 Anna Funder (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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| Author | Anna Funder |
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| Narrator | Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood, Jane Slavin |
| Duration | 12 hours and 40 minutes |
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| ISBN | 9780241556788 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Genre | Autobiography: writers, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Social discrimination and equal treatment |
| Availability | GB, IE |
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