The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Rebecca Miller
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A story of wild youth, unexpected encounters, affairs and betrayals, and the dangerous security of marriage – that has sold over 200,000 copies
‘A luminous writer’ Olivia Laing
‘Compelling’ The Times
‘Beautifully nuanced’ Daily Mail
Pippa seems to have everything in life. But suddenly she finds her world beginning to unravel. Amid the buzzing lawnmowers and suburban coffee mornings, she starts to wonder how she came to be in this place. The answer is a story of wild youth, unexpected encounters, affairs and betrayals, and the dangerous security of marriage.
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee brilliantly reveals the challenges of modern life – and all the possibilities that it holds.
“Vivacious and intense … her psychology is often penetrating … the writing is rich in striking images”
independent
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“Miller is a luminous writer … gazing into these multiple private Pippas is like opening a series of Russian dolls, each intricately wrought, self-contained and self-revealing”
Olivia Laing
observer
“Poignant, funny and wise”
financial Times
“Like Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections without the bitterness, mixed with Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides without the eccentricity, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a thoroughly enjoyable and engrossing read”
sunday Telegraph
“A beautifully layered and subtle novel of identity, with a wonderfully vivid sense of place and character. And it’s hesitatingly wise in all sorts of ways, as well as being a deftly constructed page-turner”
Joseph O’connor
Rebecca Miller
Rebecca Miller is a writer and director. She is the author of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, a Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club pick, which she also adapted for screen; Personal Velocity, her feature film of which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance; and Jacob’s Folly. Her film work includes Angela, The Ballad of Jack and Rose and Maggie’s Plan. Her work has been published in thirty-two languages.
