Complementary Colors, Kate Evans
Complementary Colors, Kate Evans
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Complementary Colors

Author: Kate Evans

Narrator: Emma Bernbach

Unabridged: 8 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Arena Scripts

Published: 02/13/2021

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Lgbtq+


Synopsis

What happens when a 31-year-old straight woman falls in love with a lesbian? It's 1993, and Gwen Sullivan is agitated. She's been married and divorced and is now living with her scientist boyfriend who loses himself in dark moods. Her job at a tutoring center and her work on the Bill Clinton-for-President campaign leave her vaguely dissatisfied. She hopes taking a night class in poetry might help. In the poetry class, the allure of two lesbians takes her by surprise. She can't get them out of her mind. This prompts her to question who she is and who she wants to be. Soon, Gwen cannot deny her intense attraction to one of the women, Jamie. The feeling is mutual, but Jamie, too, is in a long-term relationship - with a woman minister. As Jamie and Gwen become more and more entwined, Gwen must ask herself who she is and what she wants from life. She begins to see gender, sex and sexuality differently. And as she feels compelled to confess her love for Jamie to her women friends, she is continually surprised by their complex reactions. This leads her to make one of the most important decisions of her life.

About Kate Evans

Kate Evans is an illustrator and painter, living in Bristol. Legend has it that Kate's grandad, a miner's son from the Rhondda Valley, once crossed paths with Dylan Thomas in a pub.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Howard

4 Stars for Complementary Colors (audiobook) by Kate Evans read by Emma Bernbach. This was a interesting story about a woman coming to terms with her sexuality. After being in a long term relationship with a man she suddenly has feelings for her female friend. I find these relationships fascinating.......more

Goodreads review by Jan

As a married bisexual woman, I found this a wonderfully disconcerting read. It's rare that I find work in which the narrator's sexuality is so close to my own experience. While I was aware of my bisexuality much earlier than the narrator of Complementary Colors, it's great to find the feelings and e......more

Goodreads review by Joy

I liked Evan's last book, For the May Queen, but Complementary Colors exceeded my expectations. Her main character, Gwen, is more developed and more sophisticated intellectually and psychologically. Gwen's depth and acquisitiveness are pronounced, we are privy to her flaws and strengths at once. All......more

Goodreads review by Collin

We meet Gwen Sullivan at a crossroads in her life. She's feeling unsatisfied, but hasn't quite put her finger on why she's so restless. Maybe it's because her boyfriend -- an over-achieving and aloof scientist -- is no longer rocking her world or that she's working a job as a tutor that has no futur......more