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First published 2017

First Love

by Gwendoline Riley

Women's Prize 2017 · Shortlist Goldsmiths 2017 · Shortlist

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Rendered in dazzling prose, First Love is an account of the relationship between two catastrophically ill-suited people walking a precarious line between relative calm and explosive confrontation.

Prize history

Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 Shortlist
Goldsmiths Prize 2017 Shortlist

ISBN 9781612196268

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