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Naomi Wood

Biography

Naomi Wood

Naomi Wood is the award-winning author of three novels, including the bestselling MRS. HEMINGWAY. Her stories have been published in the Mid-American Review, Washington Square Review, Joyland and Stylist, and have been shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize, the London Magazine Short Story Prize, and longlisted for the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. “Comorbidities” won the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award. She lives in Norwich with her family and teaches Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

Naomi Wood

Books by Naomi Wood

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
by Naomi Wood - Fiction, Short Stories, Women's Fiction

A woman has an unexpected outburst at a corporate therapy session for working mothers. A couple find some long-overdue time to rekindle their relationship and make an ill-advised home movie. A pregnant film director plots revenge on the actress who betrayed her. An ex-wife deliberately causes conflict at her ex-husband’s wedding. THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS illuminates the lives of malicious, subversive and untamed women. Exploring failed sisterhood, dubious parenting and the dark side of modern love, this powerful and funny collection exposes how society wants women to behave and shows what happens when they refuse.

Mrs. Hemingway
by Naomi Wood - Fiction, Historical Fiction

MRS. HEMINGWAY tells the story of how it was to love, and be loved by, the most famous and dashing writer of his generation. Hadley, Pauline, Martha and Mary: each Mrs. Hemingway thought their love would last forever; each one was wrong. Told in four parts and based on real love letters and telegrams, MRS. HEMINGWAY reveals the explosive love triangles that wrecked each of Hemingway's marriages.

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