What Red Was: The powerful literary novel for readers of David Nicholls, Elizabeth Day, and Meg Wolitzer
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The audiobook edition of What Red Was written by Rosie Price, read by Eleanor Tomlinson.
‘Kate Quaile,’ he said. ‘I like your name.’
Kate frowned. ‘How do you know my name?’
Through their four years at university, Kate and Max are inseparable. For him, she breaks her solitude; for her, he leaves his busy circles behind. But loving Max means knowing his family, the wealthy Rippons, all generosity, social ease and quiet repression. Theirs is not Kate’s world. At their London home, just after graduation, her life is shattered apart in a bedroom while a party goes on downstairs.
WHAT RED WAS is a startling debut novel. It explores the effects of trauma on mind and body, the tyrannies of memory, the sacrifices involved in staying silent, the courage of a young woman in speaking out. And when Kate does, this question: whose story is it now?
© Rosie Price 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2019
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About the author
Rosie Price is the author of two novels, her highly acclaimed debut What Red Was, an Observer New Voices selection, and The Orange Room. She lives in London.
