With her novel First Love, the 39-year-old author joins eminent former winners including Seamus Heaney and Alice Oswald
Gwendoline Riley’s unsparing depiction of an abusive relationship in her novel First Love has won her the Geoffrey Faber memorial prize.
First Love, the English author’s fifth book, is an exploration of the power dynamics in romantic relationships, revealed through the unstable and toxic partnership of writer Neve and her husband Edwyn, whose self-pity and ego dominate their lives. In his review for the Observer, Stuart Evers called it “an uncomfortable book – one of naked truths, of unvarnished life, written in sentences that surprise in their collision of beauty and savagery. It shows a writer at the very height of her powers, grappling and snaring her themes into a singular, devastating journey into the ungovernable reaches of the heart.”
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