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What Red Was

By: Rosie Price
Narrated by: Eleanor Tomlinson
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of What Red Was, by Rosie Price.

‘Kate Quaile,’ he said. ‘I like your name.’

Kate frowned. ‘How do you know my name?’

Through their four years at university, Kate and Max are inseparable. For him, she breaks her solitude; for her, he leaves his busy circles behind. But loving Max means knowing his family, the wealthy Rippons, all generosity, social ease and quiet repression. Theirs is not Kate’s world. At their London home, just after graduation, her life is shattered apart in a bedroom while a party goes on downstairs.

What Red Was is a startling debut novel. It explores the effects of trauma on mind and body, the tyrannies of memory, the sacrifices involved in staying silent, the courage of a young woman in speaking out. And when Kate does, this question: whose story is it now?
©2019 Rosie Price (P)2019 Random House Audiobooks
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"I think this is the best debut fiction I've ever read...I'm still in awe of it, I think about it all the time. If you like David Nicholls, Tessa Hadley, Elizabeth Day, Meg Wolitzer, Donna Tartt, then pre-order this book. It's exceptional." (Pandora Sykes, The High Low)

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So beautifully written. Looking forward to more from Rosie Price. Loved the narration by Elinor Tomlinson also.

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Highly recommend reading to bring words to those unknown or acknowledged feelings, symptoms and suffering that may have been caused by such crimes. Offers understanding for those thoughts and behaviors one has yet to understand

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