Opposed Positions
Gwendoline Riley's spare, sharp novel follows Aislinn, a writer in her early thirties drifting between Manchester, London, and America. As she tries to build a life and keep working, she is pulled back again and again by her family, especially a cold, manipulative father whose letters and demands she cannot quite escape. Riley writes in clean, exact prose about loneliness, ambition, and the long shadow a parent can cast. It was the first book Florence Welch chose for her Between Two Books club, which she launched in 2012.
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A young writer moves between England and the United States while reckoning with a difficult father and the pull of family.
It was the very first pick for Between Two Books, the book club Florence Welch started in 2012, which she promoted from the stage soon after launching it.
Opposed Positions was written by Gwendoline Riley, published in 2012 by Jonathan Cape.
Opposed Positions is 176 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Opposed Positions takes most readers 3 to 4 hours to finish.
Opposed Positions is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
