Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante"Quite extraordinary a deeply discomforting, visceral tale of a woman unravelling." Paula Hawkins in The Guardian THE BREAK OUT NOVEL BY THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF MY BRILLIANT FRIEND Rarely have the foundations upon which our ideas of motherhood and womanhood rest been so candidly questioned. This compelling novel tells the story of one woman's headlong descent into what she calls an "absence of sense" after being abandoned by her

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