One Girl Began: An immersive and riveting story of three women, one building, and a century of change, for fans of Kate Atkinson and Maggie O Farrell
Kate Murray-Browne
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One Girl Began entwines the stories of three women, separated by history but connected by the same building. For Ellen in 1909, it is a box factory where she finds work and a transformative circle of friendship when her family fall on hard times. For Frances in 1984, it is a derelict ruin, where she joins a group of squatters and is drawn into a coercive relationship. And for Amanda in 2020, it is a gentrified conversion, where she finds herself trapped in a tiny flat and grappling with new motherhood as the pandemic looms into view.
Over the span of 111 years these three women will come to haunt one another backwards and forwards in time, each immersed in the ripples of the lives that came before, and each struggling with the same questions of who to be and how to live.
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With a brilliant concept and a skilful blending of histories, One Girl Began is both moving and addictiveOne Girl Began got me by the throat from the very first page, and I read it in two glorious sittings, trying to ration it but unable to put it down. I love it for what it says about London, how it brings the past so triumphantly into the present. But most of all, I love how Kate writes about being a woman in the world, then and now. Reading it, I felt seenA beautiful novel . . . Murray-Browne has a gift for writing the inner life - the thoughts felt deeply but never said aloud, the secret struggles, and the private hopesWith shades of Life After Life, it's an engrossing story where the complexities of women's lives echo through the different timelines. I absolutely adored it
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