Chosen Family
Autor Madeleine Grayen Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 iul 2026
'MADELEINE GRAY IS A DAZZLING WRITER - A HUGE TALENT' GILLIAN ANDERSON
'BEAUTIFUL, DEVASTATING, HILARIOUS AND FULL OF LIFE' JESSICA STANLEY
'ALL KINDS OF GORGEOUSNESS' JENNIE GODFREY
'GRAY WRITES SO ACUTELY ABOUT THE MESS OF DESIRE AND THE HUMAN CONDITION' NIGELLA LAWSON
Books about friendship are not often described as love stories, but this is one.
At the age of twelve, Nell has accepted that hers will likely be a friendless existence. She's not interested in boys or makeup or competing to see who can eat the least - so fitting in at her all-girls' school feels impossible.
But then, a new girl arrives at school.
Eve has short hair like a boy's, a wicked sense of humour and an unshakable confidence that she will find her place in the world. And the moment they meet, Nell begins to rethink the whole friendless existence thing.
As they grow into themselves, Nell and Eve will love each other and hurt each other - through the chlorine-scented savagery of adolescence; long, drunken nights in share houses and gay bars; the highs and lows of parenthood.
And always, despite unspoken feelings and sexual confusion, they will choose each other. Again, and again. As friends, as lovers, as family.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780063485709
ISBN-10: 0063485702
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
ISBN-10: 0063485702
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
Recenzii
This brilliantly sharp and readable book explores friendship, parenting, love, lust, self-deception and all the ways those things overlap. It reveals the cruelties we inflict on those we are closest to and asks if we might be able to find new, more honest, ways to love
A loose-limbed, poignant, athletically written acid-smart story of finding your tribe amid societal repression and deep personal uncertainty
Hilarious and emotional, it examines friendship, love and separation without sentimentality
If you're going to start your year reading one book, make it this one. Full of heart, hilarity and the messiness of being human
Arriving with buckets of love, this is the one that'll reaffirm your faith in humans
Sometimes savage, sometimes heart-warming . . . Chosen Family thrums with the vitality and connection of girlhood and female friendships
Madeline Gray writes so acutely about the mess of desire and the human condition
Chosen Family is all kinds of gorgeousness, filled with brilliant, complicated characters, love, sex and laughter, along with a portrait of adolescence so accurate it almost broke my heart
I laughed, I cried, I fell in love with Chosen Family. Beautiful, devastating, hilarious and full of life
Chosen Family felt like being welcomed into a world full of in-jokes, drama, comfort, chaos and love - I was completely in its thrall until the very last page. Madeleine Gray has written something very special: an epic story of female intimacy that is gripping, poignant, extremely funny and bracingly true
A passionate ode to friendship that is sharp and hilarious funny, brave and utopian, sexy but not too serious about it. Most of all it felt deeply real and true
Madeleine Gray's characters are so vivid, their actions and conversations so real, that I wanted to pick up my phone and yell at each and every one of them. A very funny, very hopeful novel about friendship and forgiveness and the hard work of trying to build a life
Hilarious and devastating. I was caught in the Medusa's gaze of Chosen Family. This book is everything to me
I loved Chosen Family's capacious heart, and the vivacious kick of its language. Gray's generosity to her characters doesn't preclude a tough, comic astringency when it comes to revealing the foibles and posturing of her characters. Yet the mocking is never cruel: this is a novel that has a lot to say about the nature of love and of friendship. And just as importantly, a lot to say about the nature of desire and friendship. I started reading and couldn't stop till I reached the final page. It is joyously good
This novel is an X-ray of the savage and terrified minds of teenage girls. Even once we're moving through adulthood, do those snarling younger selves stay trapped inside somewhere? Chosen Family is about two people reaching for love despite being burned by the world and each other. Gray is pulling all the strings: funny, devastating, shocking, heartbreaking
I inhaled this book, holding my breath at passages that felt ripped straight from my high school diary in 2007 . . . Madeleine Gray makes real the humiliation and exhilaration of teenage girlhood, and the ways it shapes the women, partners and parents we become
In Chosen Family, Madeleine Gray skilfully picks apart the ties that bind us, the ones that break and the ones that can be sewn back together. Told with Gray's inimitable wit and verve, this is a story of queer love betrayal forgiveness sex family and above all friendship, in all its gory glory. Chosen Family has it all
Warning: Clear your schedule for the all-consuming read that is Madeleine Gray's second novel, Chosen Family . . . An epic and thought-provoking tale about growing up and finding your people
Madeleine Gray perfectly captures the agonies of young adulthood . . . Chosen Family is an engrossing look at the blurriness of love
Funny, wise and moving
Sparkling and so smart
How satisfyingly complicated the central relationship is in this lively exploration of female attachment
A stunning, very funny and also moving story about the highs and lows of friendships.
A loose-limbed, poignant, athletically written acid-smart story of finding your tribe amid societal repression and deep personal uncertainty
Hilarious and emotional, it examines friendship, love and separation without sentimentality
If you're going to start your year reading one book, make it this one. Full of heart, hilarity and the messiness of being human
Arriving with buckets of love, this is the one that'll reaffirm your faith in humans
Sometimes savage, sometimes heart-warming . . . Chosen Family thrums with the vitality and connection of girlhood and female friendships
Madeline Gray writes so acutely about the mess of desire and the human condition
Chosen Family is all kinds of gorgeousness, filled with brilliant, complicated characters, love, sex and laughter, along with a portrait of adolescence so accurate it almost broke my heart
I laughed, I cried, I fell in love with Chosen Family. Beautiful, devastating, hilarious and full of life
Chosen Family felt like being welcomed into a world full of in-jokes, drama, comfort, chaos and love - I was completely in its thrall until the very last page. Madeleine Gray has written something very special: an epic story of female intimacy that is gripping, poignant, extremely funny and bracingly true
A passionate ode to friendship that is sharp and hilarious funny, brave and utopian, sexy but not too serious about it. Most of all it felt deeply real and true
Madeleine Gray's characters are so vivid, their actions and conversations so real, that I wanted to pick up my phone and yell at each and every one of them. A very funny, very hopeful novel about friendship and forgiveness and the hard work of trying to build a life
Hilarious and devastating. I was caught in the Medusa's gaze of Chosen Family. This book is everything to me
I loved Chosen Family's capacious heart, and the vivacious kick of its language. Gray's generosity to her characters doesn't preclude a tough, comic astringency when it comes to revealing the foibles and posturing of her characters. Yet the mocking is never cruel: this is a novel that has a lot to say about the nature of love and of friendship. And just as importantly, a lot to say about the nature of desire and friendship. I started reading and couldn't stop till I reached the final page. It is joyously good
This novel is an X-ray of the savage and terrified minds of teenage girls. Even once we're moving through adulthood, do those snarling younger selves stay trapped inside somewhere? Chosen Family is about two people reaching for love despite being burned by the world and each other. Gray is pulling all the strings: funny, devastating, shocking, heartbreaking
I inhaled this book, holding my breath at passages that felt ripped straight from my high school diary in 2007 . . . Madeleine Gray makes real the humiliation and exhilaration of teenage girlhood, and the ways it shapes the women, partners and parents we become
In Chosen Family, Madeleine Gray skilfully picks apart the ties that bind us, the ones that break and the ones that can be sewn back together. Told with Gray's inimitable wit and verve, this is a story of queer love betrayal forgiveness sex family and above all friendship, in all its gory glory. Chosen Family has it all
Warning: Clear your schedule for the all-consuming read that is Madeleine Gray's second novel, Chosen Family . . . An epic and thought-provoking tale about growing up and finding your people
Madeleine Gray perfectly captures the agonies of young adulthood . . . Chosen Family is an engrossing look at the blurriness of love
Funny, wise and moving
Sparkling and so smart
How satisfyingly complicated the central relationship is in this lively exploration of female attachment
A stunning, very funny and also moving story about the highs and lows of friendships.