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Ruth & Pen: The brilliant debut novel from the internationally bestselling author of Notes to Self
Emilie Pine
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One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither knows the other, but both are asking the same questions: how to be with others and how, when the world won't make space for you, to be with yourself? Ruth's marriage to Aidan is in crisis. Today she needs to make a choice - to stay or not to stay, to take the risk of reaching out, or to pull up the drawbridge. For teenage Pen, today is the day the words will flow, and she will speak her truth to Alice, to ask for what she so desperately wants. RUTH & PEN is the fictional debut from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELF. Deeply involving, poignant and radiantly intelligent, it is a portrait of the limits of grief and love, of how we navigate our inner and outer landscapes, and the tender courage demanded by the simple, daily quest of living.
The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELF
Dublin, 7 October 2019
One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, but both asking themselves the same questions: how to be with others and how, when the world doesn't seem willing to make space for them, to be with themselves?
Ruth's marriage to Aidan is in crisis. Today she needs to make a choice - to stay or not to stay, to take the risk of reaching out, or to pull up the drawbridge.
For teenage Pen, today is the day the words will flow, and she will speak her truth to Alice, to ask for what she so desperately wants.
Deeply involving, poignant and radiantly intelligent, it is a portrait of the limits of grief and love, of how we navigate our inner and outer landscapes, and the tender courage demanded by the simple, daily quest of living.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241573297
SKU
9780241573297
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About Emilie Pine
Emilie Pine is Professor of Modern Drama at University College Dublin, Ireland. She has published widely as an academic and critic. Her first collection of personal essays Notes to Self won the Butler Literary Award, the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year Award, and Book of the Year 2018 at the Irish Book Awards. Ruth & Pen is her first novel.
Reviews for Ruth & Pen: The brilliant debut novel from the internationally bestselling author of Notes to Self
Mesmerising . . . I became completely immersed in this emotional, intimate read
Good Housekeeping
[An] uplifting debut novel . . . joy is a vital ingredient in Ruth & Pen
The Observer
The debut novel from the author of the personal essay collection Notes to Self is a poignant, raw exploration of the courage needed to find your space in the world
i
Impressive . . . Pine explores with great acuity and tenderness the restorative, capacious nature of love. A wise and lovely book
Daily Mail
Pine makes her chapters playful, writing with a friendly curiousness that brings to mind Ali Smith . . . Pine's measured yet tender juxtaposition of the women's days doesn't draw overly neat parallels so much as prove that one needs the other - younger needs older, optimist needs pessimist, introvert needs extrovert. And our opposites might help us find clarity
i
[Ruth & Pen] finds heartbreaking beauty in our everyday lives . . . There is a real tenderness in the way in which Pine writes about the teenage girls in the novel
The Irish Times
Pine reinforces her reputation as one of the most empathetic writers in the country
The Irish Examiner
There's no doubting the novel's basic integrity; its warmth, its undogmatic interest in ordinary lives, and the impressive range of its imaginative sympathies
Kevin Power
The Irish Times
Moving and raw . . . Pine's ability to enter the heads of two such different characters is a sure sign of literary promise
The Sunday Times (Ireland)
This book is an intimate portrait of love and grief, and the tender, fragile courage required just to live each day
Irish Country Magazine
A confident walk through the lives of others, two women seeking their place in the world and a peace in themselves
RTE Guide
Good Housekeeping
[An] uplifting debut novel . . . joy is a vital ingredient in Ruth & Pen
The Observer
The debut novel from the author of the personal essay collection Notes to Self is a poignant, raw exploration of the courage needed to find your space in the world
i
Impressive . . . Pine explores with great acuity and tenderness the restorative, capacious nature of love. A wise and lovely book
Daily Mail
Pine makes her chapters playful, writing with a friendly curiousness that brings to mind Ali Smith . . . Pine's measured yet tender juxtaposition of the women's days doesn't draw overly neat parallels so much as prove that one needs the other - younger needs older, optimist needs pessimist, introvert needs extrovert. And our opposites might help us find clarity
i
[Ruth & Pen] finds heartbreaking beauty in our everyday lives . . . There is a real tenderness in the way in which Pine writes about the teenage girls in the novel
The Irish Times
Pine reinforces her reputation as one of the most empathetic writers in the country
The Irish Examiner
There's no doubting the novel's basic integrity; its warmth, its undogmatic interest in ordinary lives, and the impressive range of its imaginative sympathies
Kevin Power
The Irish Times
Moving and raw . . . Pine's ability to enter the heads of two such different characters is a sure sign of literary promise
The Sunday Times (Ireland)
This book is an intimate portrait of love and grief, and the tender, fragile courage required just to live each day
Irish Country Magazine
A confident walk through the lives of others, two women seeking their place in the world and a peace in themselves
RTE Guide