Mrs. Hemingway, Naomi Wood
Mrs. Hemingway, Naomi Wood
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Mrs. Hemingway

Author: Naomi Wood

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 9 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/27/2014

Synopsis

The Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story…Summer, 1926. Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley take refuge from the blazing heat of Paris in a villa in the south of France. They swim and play bridge, and drink gin with abandon. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife. Fife is Hadley's best friend. She is also Ernest's lover. Hadley is the first Mrs. Hemingway, but neither she nor Fife will be the last. Each Mrs. Hemingway thought their love would last forever; each one was wrong.Narrated by Hemingway's four wives—Hadley, Fife, Martha, and Mary—and peopled with members of the fabled "Lost Generation"—including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald—Mrs. Hemingway paints a complex portrait of the man behind the legend and the women behind the man, a riveting tale of passion, love, and heartbreak.

About Naomi Wood

Naomi Wood was awarded the 2012 inaugural Eccles Centre British Library Writer in Residence Award. She is the Young Patrons Ambassador at the British Library and teaches at Goldsmiths University. She lives in London.

About Kate Reading

Kate Reading, named an AudioFile Golden Voice, has recorded hundreds of audiobooks across many genres, over a thirty–year plus career and won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. Among other awards, she has been recognized as an AudioFile Magazine Voice of the Century, Narrator of the Year, Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy, and winner of an Publisher’s Weekly’s Listen-Up Award. She records at her home studio, Madison Productions, Inc., in Maryland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Violet on March 07, 2016

There’s recently been a slew of novels about authors and their spouses. And if you do a little sleuth work here you’ll discover that a novel about a literary celebrity will outsell a hundredfold all the authors previous novels. So it’s clearly a very good career move for a novelist whose work has fa......more

Goodreads review by Amy on June 02, 2022

This book was interesting and well constructed. But not quite as new on the market as I had thought. It was actually written in 2014. The book is written in four parts, from the point of view of the four wives of Ernest Hemmingway. What is interesting about it, is that you wonder about the psycholog......more

Goodreads review by Maya on April 28, 2014

Naomi Woods writes wonderful prose. Her style is succinct and spare, yet gorgeously metaphoric, like a skeletal Jazz-age flapper, bejewelled and beautifully dressed and very little flesh on her bones. But I found the structure - tracking backwards and forwards through time - more than a little annoy......more

Goodreads review by Mairead on August 07, 2018

'And the world is done' Mrs Hemingway is a novel that I absolutely devoured as I was transported back to a time that has always held great fascination for me. Naomi Wood has brought the lives of the four Mrs. Hemingways together in this imagined account of the complex life of a very complicated a......more

Goodreads review by Sandra on October 09, 2022

A good number of years ago I read The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, about Hadley Richardson, Ernest Hemingway’s first wife. I was totally absorbed by this book and it even lead me to read A Moveable Feast by Hemingway. Hemingway married four times, so The Paris Wife was only the beginning..... In this n......more

Quotes

“Wood has given us a fascinating, astutely observed, gorgeously written account of the Hemingway wives and their charismatic, enigmatic, troubled, and troublesome husband. This is a gem of a book.” Therese Ann Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of Z

“Naomi Wood’s absorbing, illuminating novel offers fascinating portraits of four extraordinary women and the tortured literary genius who loved them. If you thought you knew all there was to know about Ernest Hemingway’s wives, their passions, and their heartbreak, think again.” Jennifer Chiaverini, New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln’s Rival

“Forget everything you thought you knew about Ernest Hemingway’s four wives. In a quartet of searing interlocked portraits, Naomi Wood brings vividly to life the real women who loved and lost the legendary charmer and great writer. Mrs. Hemingway is a luminous, heartbreaking novel. Wood is a writer to watch.” Ellen Feldman, Orange Prize–shortlisted author of Lucy

“Magnetic…Wood’s novel assembles a satisfying puzzle of personalities, bringing each relationship’s beginning, end, and overlap into vivid focus.” New York Times Book Review

“Luminous, intoxicating…A passionate novel based on real lives, full of betrayals and moments of heartbreaking intimacy as Wood gives four remarkable women star billing.” Marie Claire (UK)

“Well researched…interesting…[and] cleverly done.” Literary Review (UK)

“Exquisitely written, the Mrs. Hemingways finally have their say in this beautiful novel.” Stylist Magazine (UK)

“A beautiful read and an amazing insight into the life of the man…superb.” Red (UK)

“It takes an unusual skill to keep someone reading a story to which they think they already know the ending. But Mrs. Hemingway is so beautifully written, and evocative, that I could not put it down until the last page.” Jojo Moyes, author of Me before You

“Very occasionally, a piece of fiction based on facts is so good that I catch myself thinking: ‘Oh, so that’s how it really was.’ Wood achieves this in this breathtakingly good look at the lives of Ernest Hemingway’s four wives…Sublime.” Bookseller (UK)

Awards

  • New York Times   Bestseller
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