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Mrs S
- Narrated by: Nicolette Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Summary
An Observer Best Debut of the Year
A Granta Best of Young British Novelists
Powerfully sensual and sublimely stylish, Mrs S is a tale of queer love that smoulders with the heat of summer.
In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls, a young Australian woman arrives to take up the antiquated role of ‘matron’. Within this landscape of immense privilege, in which the girls can sense the slightest weakness in those around them, she finds herself unsure of her role, her accent and her body.
That is until she meets Mrs S, the headmaster’s wife, a woman who is her polar opposite: assured, sophisticated, a paragon of femininity. Over the course of a long, restless heatwave, the matron finds herself irresistibly drawn ever closer into Mrs S’s world and their unspoken desire blooms into an illicit affair of electric intensity. But, as the summer begins to fade, both women know that a choice must be made.
K Patrick’s portrait of the butch experience is revelatory; exploring the contested terrain of our bodies, our desires and the constraints society places around both. Mrs S marks the arrival of a major new literary talent, unlike any other.
Critic reviews
"The intense physicality of the novel’s emotions and its stylish, stripped-back prose make for an arresting pairing." (Hephzibah Anderson, Observer)
"Mrs S is sublime – at once a languorous slow-burn and a moving reflection on queerness and what it is to be and be seen. I loved this book." (Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea)
"An extraordinary novel: poignant and tough, tender and unsentimental. K Patrick examines with their almost forensic gaze the tiny words and touches that can bring us, however fleetingly, in from the outside." (Marina Kemp, author of Nightingale)
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- Kindle Customer
- 18-08-23
beautiful
stunningly written, you get engulfed in the atmosphere. listened in one go couldn't stop!
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- Miranda J Murphy
- 19-12-23
Stunning!
Hooked from start to end, it was addictive, erotic and affirming. Much as I loved the relationship between Mrs S and our protagonist, I always loved the representation of queer friendship. LOVE!
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- Anonymous User
- 24-11-23
The story
Had you believing it was live and real and very true to life,Thank you very much
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- Joanna
- 06-12-23
Recommended
This book gently rocks you with its lazy yet loaded pace into a nuanced and a very real telling of queer existence in a normative surrounding. Wonderful and sexy descriptions of longing, desire and fucking. Also a funny and easy listen, with great voice performances, especially the voice of Mrs S.
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-11-23
Disappointed
Mediocre storyline. British accents were ridiculous! Struggled to get thru it. Only bought it as review by Sarah Winman was good.
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