From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage - an exploration of motherhood, art and new love.
'Never less than gripping... Reads like a classic' Observer 'Exceptional... thrilling and bitter and fulfilling' Vogue How do you rebuild a life? How do you move forward into joy when haunted by loss? How do you claim hope, while accepting the harm you've caused? This is the story of a ruptured marriage - one that was once brimming with hope. It is also the story of Leslie Jamison's consuming love for her young daughter, and the shaping legacy of her own parents' complicated bond. Exceptionally astute, and written with remarkable candour, Splinters is an account of motherhood, art and love, and what it means for a woman to be many things at once. 'A treatise on the contradictions of being a mother, a partner, a daughter and an artist - singly, and all at once' New Statesman 'Jamison encapsulates lived reality with evocative, embodied detail' Financial Times 'Unputdownable... squishing layer upon layer of resonant truths into meticulously crafted paragraphs' Red
"An exceptional read, guiding [the] reader through [Leslie's] thrilling and bitter and fulfilling affairs of the heart" - Vogue
"Beautifully interwoven and unputdownable... squishing layer upon layer of resonant truths into meticulously crafted paragraphs" - Red
"[Splinters'] pages are lit by flinty humour and grownup joy as thought and feeling are joined in prose that's intimate and exacting... never less than gripping... A mother-daughter love story that reads like a classic" - Observer
"Splinters is a treatise on the contradictions of being a mother, a partner, a daughter and an artist - singly, and all at once... Jamison's love for her daughter is the crux of this book" - New Statesman
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'Never less than gripping... Reads like a classic' Observer 'Exceptional... thrilling and bitter and fulfilling' Vogue How do you rebuild a life? How do you move forward into joy when haunted by loss? How do you claim hope, while accepting the harm you've caused? This is the story of a ruptured marriage - one that was once brimming with hope. It is also the story of Leslie Jamison's consuming love for her young daughter, and the shaping legacy of her own parents' complicated bond. Exceptionally astute, and written with remarkable candour, Splinters is an account of motherhood, art and love, and what it means for a woman to be many things at once. 'A treatise on the contradictions of being a mother, a partner, a daughter and an artist - singly, and all at once' New Statesman 'Jamison encapsulates lived reality with evocative, embodied detail' Financial Times 'Unputdownable... squishing layer upon layer of resonant truths into meticulously crafted paragraphs' Red
"An exceptional read, guiding [the] reader through [Leslie's] thrilling and bitter and fulfilling affairs of the heart" - Vogue
"Beautifully interwoven and unputdownable... squishing layer upon layer of resonant truths into meticulously crafted paragraphs" - Red
"[Splinters'] pages are lit by flinty humour and grownup joy as thought and feeling are joined in prose that's intimate and exacting... never less than gripping... A mother-daughter love story that reads like a classic" - Observer
"Splinters is a treatise on the contradictions of being a mother, a partner, a daughter and an artist - singly, and all at once... Jamison's love for her daughter is the crux of this book" - New Statesman
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