The Female Persuasion
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4.2 • 13 Ratings
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- £5.99
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Publisher Description
** Selected by 8 National Newspapers as a Book of the Year **
** The New York Times Bestseller **
‘A page-turner that succeeds both at character and ideas’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A warm and immersive novel about ambition, power, women, friendship and finding your place in the world, from the bestselling author of The Wife and The Interestings.
Greer Kadetsky is a shy college student when she meets the person who will change her life.
Faith Frank, an influential and glamorous figure from the women’s movement, inhabits a very different world to Greer’s. But after a chance encounter Faith singles Greer out and invites her into her life, leading her down a thrilling path as it winds towards and away from her meant-to-be love story with high school sweetheart Cory and the future she had always imagined.
Expansive and wise, compassionate and witty, The Female Persuasion is about the spark we all believe is flickering inside us, waiting to be seen and fanned by the right person at the right time.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In Meg Wolitzer’s sparkling and satisfying novel, people dream of bigger lives, find their calling, lose their way, love, grieve and learn. The Female Persuasion is for everyone who's been lifted up by women fighting for a fairer world. The story explores the different waves of American feminism—their triumphs, failures, clashes and interconnectedness. It’s an important and timely read, but it’s also hugely entertaining. With its flawed, charismatic characters, dramatic stories spanning decades, and an unfettered sense of humour, the book made us feel like part of an imperfect but beautiful sisterhood.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Wolitzer's ambitious and satisfying novel (following The Interestings) charts a Massachusetts girl's coming-of-age and asks pressing questions about what it means to be an empowered modern woman. When "selectively and furiously shy" freshman Greer Kadetsky first encounters 63-year-old feminist icon Faith Frank's impassioned rhetoric during a guest lecture at her college, she is bowled over by Frank's knowledge and intimidating stature. A few years after graduation, Greer lands a coveted job at Frank's Loci Foundation, a new speakers' forum dedicated to sharing women's stories, and couldn't be more excited about what her future might hold. But life throws a few curveballs. Her high school sweetheart, now a hotshot consultant, endures an unfathomable tragedy and moves back into his childhood home, disrupting the couple's plans to move in together. And, while her job at the foundation started out exhilarating and full of big ideas, the once-wide-eyed Greer has gained a more realistic perspective a few years in including a nuanced understanding of a more human Frank. As in her previous novels, Wolitzer writes with an easy, engrossing style, and her eye for detail seamlessly connects all the dots in the book's four major story lines. This insightful and resonant novel explores what it is to both embrace womanhood and suffer because of it.)
