The compulsive cult classic queer coming-of-age novel

'A beautiful read / a perfect primer for an explosive lesbian affair / an essential truth' LENA DUNHAM

The cult-classic novella that intimately explores one young writer's whirlwind and whiplash affair as she falls deeply in love with a woman for the first time.

''I have meditated repeatedly on what it was about Finn that had me so dismantled.'' A young woman moves from the countryside to the city. Inexplicably, inexorably and immediately, she falls in love with another woman for the first time in her life. Finn is nineteen years older than her, wears men''s clothes, has a cocky smirk of a smile - and a long-term girlfriend. With precision, wit and tenderness, Women charts the frenzy and the fall out of love.

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Chloé Caldwell is the author of The Red Zone: A Love Story, I'll Tell You in Person, and Legs Get Led Astray. Her next book, Trying, will be published by Graywolf. Chloé's work has been published in the New York Times, Bon Appétit, The Cut, Longreads, Nylon, Hobart, The Sun, The Rumpus, Vice and a dozen anthologies. She teaches creative writing online and hosts seasonal writing retreats. Chloé lives in Hudson, New York.

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'A beautiful read / a perfect primer for an explosive lesbian affair / an essential truth' LENA DUNHAM

The cult-classic novella that intimately explores one young writer's whirlwind and whiplash affair as she falls deeply in love with a woman for the first time.

One of Cosmopolitan UK's Best Erotic Novels of All Time

'I have meditated repeatedly on what it was about Finn that had me so dismantled.'

A young woman moves from the countryside to the city.

Inexplicably, inexorably and immediately, she falls in love with another woman for the first time in her life.

Finn is nineteen years older than her, wears men's clothes, has a cocky smirk of a smile - and a long-term girlfriend.

With precision, wit and tenderness, Women charts the frenzy and the fall out of love.

'You'll devour it in one sitting'*VOGUE*

'Her prose has a reckless beauty that feels to me like magic'CHERYL STRAYED

'A contemporary classic of queer women's writing'MICHELLE TEA