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The Boyfriend

By: Laura Southgate
Narrated by: Natalie Beran
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Summary

Winner of the Adam Foundation Prize.

Erica is 17 and in her last year of high school. Donny is 42 and everywhere - in her yoga class, at German Club, in her parents' spare room....

The story of a young woman who finds herself subject to the gravitational field of a charismatic man, The Boyfriend is a cautionary tale about blindly accepting traditional 'love' narratives. 

This clear-eyed, dismaying and often hilarious examination of sexual desire, trauma and growth is a remarkable debut and a perfect novel for our time.
©2019 Laura Southgate (P)2019 Hachette Audio UK
Coming of Age Literature & Fiction
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