OUR STORE IS CLOSED ON ANZAC DAY: THURSDAY 25 APRIL
Lisa Taddeo spent eight years and thousands of hours tracking the women whose stories comprise Three Women, moving to the towns they lived in to better understand their lives. She has contributed to New York magazine, Esquire, Elle, Glamour and many other publications. Her short stories have won two Pushcart Prizes. She lives with her husband and daughter in New England.
I can't remember the last time a book affected me as profoundly as Three Women. Lisa Taddeo is a tireless reporter, a brilliant writer, and a storyteller possessed of almost supernatural humanity ... I know already that I will never stop thinking about the women profiled in this story - about their sexual desire, their emotional pain, their strength, their losses. I saw myself in all of them. Truly, Three Women is an extraordinary offering -- Elizabeth Gilbert It's been years since I've read a book as propulsive, engrossing, mind-bending and required as Lisa Taddeo's Three Women. It is the deepest dive into our neighbours' consciousnesses that I've ever read, so immersive it approaches the Tolstoyan, and its narcotic pleasures mainline the only thing that can truly save us: empathy -- Adam Ross Intense and riveting. It gives us epic themes in miniature. These women broke my heart and I won't forget them -- Gillian Anderson [An] instant feminist classic. In this utterly engrossing, frankly game-changing work of narrative non-fiction, a New York magazine contributor profiles a trio of everyday women, shining a light on their darkest desires and how men (and other women) often thwart those wants -- Michelle Hart * O, The Oprah Magazine * Three Women is riveting - a searing, honest, visceral and compulsive account of women's desire. I've never read anything like it -- Esther Freud This is one of the most riveting, assured and scorchingly original debuts I've ever read. Taddeo's beautifully written and unflinching portraits of desire allow her protagonists to be wholly human and wholly, blessedly complex. I can't imagine a scenario where this isn't one of the more important - and breathlessly debated - books of the year -- Dave Eggers Three Women is the new required reading for women and any person who wants to know them. Taddeo has given these women's testimonies of desire, love and trauma a brilliance and dignity that is nothing short of revolutionary -- Stephanie Danler If a measure of outstanding biographical writing is that it closes the gap between how we perceive a person from the outside, and what that person thinks, feels and desires, then this debut by a prize-winning writer and journalist not only succeeds, but takes such writing to new heights ... An utterly compelling, scorching piece of reportage ... You won't want to stop reading it * Bookseller, Book of the Month *
