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I Married You for Happiness
I Married You for Happiness | Lily Tuck
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Throughout Lily Tucks career, she's been praised by critics for her crisp, lean language and sensuous explorations of exotic locales and complex psychologies. From Siam to Paraguay and beyond, Tuck inspires readers to travel into unfamiliar realms, and her newest novel is no exception. Slender, potent, and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet. His hand is growing cold, still she holds it is how this novel that tells the story of a marriage begins. The tale unfolds over a single night as Nina sits at the bedside of her husband, Philip, whose sudden and unexpected death is the reason for her lonely vigil. Still too shocked to grieve, she lets herself remember the defining moments of their long union, beginning with their meeting in Paris. She is an artist, he a highly accomplished mathematiciana collision of two different worlds that merged to form an intricate and passionate love. As we move through select memoriesreal and imaginedTuck reveals the most private intimacies, dark secrets, and overwhelming joys that defined Nina and Philip's life together.
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tpixie
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Reading the last book in Round 4 of our mail around bookclub #CoverToCover
This is a moving story of the woman whose husband just died. She is recounting their lives together the day of his death, while she remains at his deathbed.

Cathythoughts I love this title 2y
tpixie @Cathythoughts it is lovely, isn‘t it? So far it‘s a touching book. It‘s her thoughts and so sometimes they jump around a little so I‘m doing both audio and e-book. Plus there some French words, so I do better with the e-book or physical book with those. 😊 (edited) 2y
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Quiet, devastating and beautiful. The writing is in the style of an internal monologue and skips about all over the place like real thoughts and memories do. Difficult topics are covered with the same weight as everything else, as if to say that when you get old, you realise that everything you worried about ceases to matter. I struggled with this idea but think the way it's done is profound.

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arlenefinnigan
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#WeCanWorkItOut #HeyJune
A lovely book about how marriage isn't all happiness and is really fucking hard work.
@cinfhen @GypsyKat

Cinfhen Amen, sister 🙏🏻 6y
LaraReads Double Amen!! 🙏🏼 6y
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Brona
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I love it when the book I'm enjoying references one of my favourite authors 😊
http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2017/09/i-married-you-for-happiness-by-lily-t...

Sue Zola ❤️ 7y
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Brona
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I love it when my holiday toes match my book 💙😊#colourcoordinationqueen 👣💃🏼👑

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arlenefinnigan
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This was really lovely and sad and beautiful. Described a marriage honestly - it doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. Bit of an odd abrupt ending but a great read.

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arlenefinnigan
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As well as being on a roll of reading feminist/#NastyWomen books, I'm reading a lot on marriage. Even feminazis sometime have wedding anniversaries to plan for.

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Denisereads75
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I am not sure how I feel about this slim novel. Nina finds that her husband has passed away while she was making dinner. She spends that night reminiscing about their married life together. I liked the premise of the novel but the stream of conscious writing style took me out of the story.