Three Women

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES , TIMES, SPECTATOR, EVENING STANDARD , FINANCIAL TIMES , ESQUIRE , AMAZON, NETGALLEY AND TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A book that blazes, glitters and cuts to the heart of who we are. I'm not sure that a book can do much more' SUNDAY TIMES 'I will probably re-read it every year of my life' CAITLIN MORAN 'An instant classic' i 'So relatable it hurts' ELIZABETH DAY 'Like a true crime story - in which the crime is desire' ELLE All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her?All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town?All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to watch her have sex with other men and women? Three Women is a record of unmet needs, unspoken thoughts, disappointments, hopes and unrelenting obsessions. 'People just need to get up and read this book' RUPI KAUR 'Will amaze you. Will enrage you. Will astound you' JESSIE BURTON 'Reading Three Women is like reading the diary you could have never hoped to write. It pulses like an artery' OBSERVER 'The book every man should read' ESQUIRE 'Wow. I literally could not put it down' GWYNETH PALTROW

You will Instagram yourself reading this by the pool because what is the point otherwise?

Préface
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A STYLIST AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE DECADE THE MOST-PICKED BOOK OF THE YEAR OF 2019

Auteur

Lisa Taddeo 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 Connecticut.

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One of the most riveting, assured and scorchingly original debuts I've ever read ... I can't imagine a scenario where this isn't one of the more important - and breathlessly debated - books of the year' DAVE EGGERS

It's the nuances of desire that hold the truth of who we are at our rawest of moments. I set out to register the heat and sting of female want so that men and other women might more easily comprehend before they condemn. Because it's the quotidian minutes of our lives that will go on forever, that will tell us who we were, who our neighbors and our mothers were, when we were too diligent in thinking they were nothing like us. This is the story of three women.

Three Women is an examination of female desire told by a woman who, for eight years, talked to three other women. It is a record of unmet needs, unspoken thoughts, disappointments, hopes and unrelenting obsessions that will change what is permissible for women to reveal about themselves.

The result is a visceral and provocative feat of narrative non-fiction in which the intimacies of three lives coalesce to form a major, revelatory portrait of female desire.

Résumé
The International No. 1 Bestseller 'Cuts to the heart of who we are' Sunday Times 'A book that begs discussion' Vanity Fair All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town? All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to watch her have sex with other men and women? Three Women is a record of unmet needs, unspoken thoughts, disappointments, hopes and unrelenting obsessions. The book Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Alexa Chung, Jodie Comer, Reese Witherspoon, Harry Styles, Fearne Cotton, Caitriona Balfe, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sharon Horgan, Zoe Ball, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Davina McCall, Gemma Chan, Christine and the Queens and Gillian Anderson are all reading 'I will probably re-read it every year of my life' Caitlin Moran 'Will have millions nodding in recognition' The Times 'As gripping as the most gripping thriller' Marian Keyes 'When I picked it up, I felt I'd been waiting half my life to read it' Observer 'The kind of bold, timely, once-in-a-generation book that every house should have a copy of, and probably will before too long' New Statesman The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller The No. 1 New York Times Bestseller Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year A Stylist Book of the Decade The Most-Picked Book of the Year of 2019