Editions

The Uncoupling

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099553960

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 202g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Uncoupling

What if every woman in town suddenly went on strike?

For the people of Stellar Plains, the staging of a new school production of an Athenian drama coincides with a mysterious cold wind that blows into houses and into hearts, stilling passion and cooling sheets. As the play moves into dress rehearsal and discontent simmers, opening night cannot come a moment too soon...

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099553960

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 202g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • Delightful and heartbreaking

    David Baddiel, The Times

  • Her writing is effortlessly readable

    Lucy Scholes, Sunday Times

  • A novel that tingles with playfulness and wicked observation

    Independent

  • There are lots of sharp insights on the generation gap, the pseudo-intimacy generated by the internet, and American high-school life; Wolitzer displays perfect comic timing in her awkward chats between jocular teachers and mortified teens

    Guardian

  • Highly entertaining and a serious page-turner. Wolitzer's humour and language create a compelling read

    Aesthetica

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About the Author

Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer is the author of several acclaimed novels, including The Uncoupling (‘tingles with playfulness and wicked observation’ Independent), The Wife (‘has you howling with recognition’ Allison Pearson), The Position (‘one of the best and most human books I’ve read all year’ Erica Wagner) and The Ten-Year Nap (‘as incisive and pitiless and clear-eyed a chronicler of female-male tandems as Philip Roth or John Updike' Chicago Tribune). Most recently, The Interestings was a New York Times bestseller. She lives in New York City.

Meg Wolitzer

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