Name: A Love Story: Couplets
Brand: Faber & Faber
SKU: 9780571391653
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Author: Maggie Millner
ISBN: 9780571391653

Author: Maggie Millner

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💖 Tone: Intimate, lyrical, emotionally raw
⚡ Pace: Medium, reflective
🌫️ Vibes: Queer love, obsession, intellectual connection
👑 Themes: Desire, identity, power dynamics, self-discovery
🧠 Mind Game: Introspective, poetic, deeply emotional
🌶️ Spice Level: Medium – sensual, emotionally intense moments
🔥 Hook: What begins as infatuation deepens into a love that challenges everything she thought she knew about herself.
👀 Perfect For: Fans of Sally Rooney, Ocean Vuong, Garth Greenwell
📖 Readers Who’ll Love This: Readers who love literary romance, queer love stories, and emotionally complex relationships told with lyrical, thought-provoking depth

About A Love Story: Couplets By Maggie Millner

'I've never read a better encapsulation of what it means to question a previously fixed idea of identity and selfhood.' Vogue

'Millner's ultimate achievement is to draw open the distance . . .between the self that one takes as given and the self, no less true, that one cannot help but make.' New Yorker

'Millner is brilliant at showing how early moments of lust can be existentially unmooring. . . Couplets is deft, delicate and unexpectedly fun.' Guardian

'Maggie Millner's Couplets absolutely blew me away. Breathing new life into that most familiar of poetic forms, she recounts the difficulties inherent in making ourselves vulnerable to another person with precision and guile.' James Conor Patterson, Poetry Society, Books of the Year

Maggie Millner's electrifying debut is a coming-of-age love story, a story of coming out and a story of coming apart. A woman in her late twenties leaves a long-term relationship with a boyfriend for another woman. The affair thrusts her from an outwardly conventional life into queerness, polyamory, kink, and unalloyed, consuming desire.

Book details

Format: Paperback
Reading age: 18+
Pages: 112
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 20 June 2024
Language: English
ISBN: 9780571391653

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