Two women are reunited twenty years after the love affair that changed both their worlds.
Sylvia Brownrigg is the author of several novels (including The Metaphysical Touch, Pages for You, The Delivery Room and Morality Tale), and her work has been included in the New York Times Notable Books and the LA Times Best Books of the Year. She has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, and the TLS, and she has taught at the American University in Paris. Her novel for children, Kepler's Dream (published under the name Juliet Bell), has been made into a film. She lives in Berkeley, California with her family, and continues to spend time in London.
Sylvia Brownrigg's Pages for Her is a complex portrait of
two women's sexuality. In the romantic universe of Brownrigg's
novel, there is no either/or, no simple black and white. When
characters - read people - are freed from the often blinding forces
of personal obligation and private loss, a lust for intimacy takes
over. In Pages for Her, Brownrigg gives us two accomplished
women who, coming together after decades apart, understand that
truth laid bare is best beguiled -- Alice Sebold, author of The
Lovely Bones
In this intense, compelling novel, Sylvia Brownrigg writes vividly
about passion rekindled in mid-life with the force of a tsunami.
Pages for Her, the sequel to Pages for You, stands as
a beautiful testament to human complexity, reminding us that fierce
love comes in many forms, none of them mutually exclusive. A
wonderful novel - completely engrossing. -- Claire Messud, author
of The Emperor's Children and The Woman Upstairs
With Pages for Her, Sylvia Brownrigg has achieved the
seemingly impossible, a gorgeous and piercing book that is both a
huge gift to the many readers who loved its predecessor Pages
for You, and an exquisitely intelligent stand-alone novel about
the intertwined arcs of time and love. -- Ann Packer, author of
The Children's Crusade
Nuanced, assured, and razor-sharp, Pages for Her is both a
bittersweet story about rekindled love and a profound meditation on
what it means to be alive. -- Christina Baker Kline, author of
Orphan Train
Pages for Her takes on all the Big Questions in women's
lives: what it means to have 'enough' in love, sex, work,
motherhood; what we deserve; what we long for; how we get trapped;
how we can break free. I found myself reading with pen in hand,
compelled to underline both Brownrigg's gorgeous prose and her
astute insights. -- Peggy Orenstein, author Girls & Sex
With Pages for Her, Brownrigg does open-heart surgery,
probing the deep chamber where unfinished love resides, untouchable
by time, still beating -- Carol Anshaw, author of Carry the
One
Elegant, absorbing, beautifully written . . . the many fans of
Pages for You will love this brilliant continuation of
Flannery and Anne's story -- Kate Christensen, PEN-Faulkner-award
winning author of The Great Man
I was awed by the depth and quality of this novel . . . what made
the novel so wonderful for me was the total focus on what it is to
be a woman across the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries * Nudge
*
Brownrigg approaches her characters with clarity and sensitivity,
capturing the nuances in the women's relationships to the people
they love-as mother, daughter, sister, friend, wife, or lover-and
the power they give those people to define and inspire them . . .
Brownrigg considers motherhood, romance, identity, and the changes
brought by time in this tender, insightful novel * Kirkus *
Pages for Her is tender and sharply observant. This is a
book about love, but not the love of Valentine's day cards. This is
the lumpy-risky-no-right-answers sort of love with which we all
must contend. It will leave you with the memories of hands once
held and skin once known -- Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of
Harmless Like You
[A] thoughtful, gentle, yet passionate novel...Brownrigg's themes
of sexuality, betrayal, marriage, and identity resonate along with
this tale's strong sense of yearning as it poses the question, Can
you be a soul mate with someone you haven't seen in two decades? *
Booklist *
Brownrigg did something marvelous in Pages For You . . .
Now, 15 years later, there is a sequel: Pages For Her . . .
There is nothing of the parable in these two books. They are not
allegories or lessons about how to be a queer woman in the world.
It is not wrong to have babies, and it isn't wrong to marry men or
not marry men. It is not wrong to be too young or too old, to be
more or less into girls at whatever particular age or stage one
happens to be. For this simple reason, reading Brownrigg's novels
feels like entering a fictional world that is less fussy, more
real. Mainstream fiction could do with substantially more fiction
about romance between teenagers and between middle-aged women . . .
For now, we have these pages. * New Republic *
Reading Pages For Her is like going on the perfect date; it
picks you up, impresses you with its knowledge, seduces you with
its wit and soon sweeps you away into a different world. And if
you're hungry for more, there's a special reissue of cult classic
Pages For You, the story of the first encounter between
Flannery and Anne * Diva *
Beautiful . . . a soft, pure and very gentle exercise on the nature
of love . . . an exhilarating, passionate work that explores
marriage, sexuality, and the transformative power of love over time
and the way two women face the slow burning truth of their lives,
their relationships and the utter delight of honest ownership of
powerful experiences and truth * G Scene *
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