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First Love

by Gwendoline Riley (2017)

About this book

Rendered in dazzling prose, First Love is an account of the relationship between two catastrophically ill-suited people walking a precarious line between relative calm and explosive confrontation.

Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraContemporary
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters

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