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All around you are little warning signs, yet you do not heed them. You sense you need to find the gift of a man who will let you be free to do what you really want in life. Write. But you are tumbling into the vastness of a consuming passion. It is the willing violation of the clear, hard, glittery core of who you really are, but you don't care. Because you have in your grasp what you've always wanted. Love. Having lived through the humiliation and bewildering complexity of heartbreak in her twenties, Nikki Gemmell eventually resurfaced, reclaimed space for herself and found her voice. Decades later she was written Dissolve, a meditation on women's lives and creative desires. This is a deeply personal, profoundly intimate reflection on love and female creativity, and what happens when the two collide in a man's world.
About the author
Nikki Gemmell is the bestselling author of 13 novels and four works of non-fiction. Her books have been translated into 22 languages. She was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, and lived in London for many years, but has now returned to Australia. Her distinctive writing has gained her critical acclaim in France, where she's been described as a 'female Jack Kerouac'. The French literary magazine
Lire included her in a list of the 50 most important writers in the world - those it believes will have a significant influence on the literature of the 21st century. Gemmell pens a weekly column for
The Weekend Australian Magazine and she also writes novels for children. Four of her books -
Shiver,
Cleave,
The Bride Stripped Bare and
The Book of Rapture - made the longlist of Favourite Australian Novels as chosen by readers of
Australian Book Review.
Summary
This story of a writer finding her voice, struggling to have a room of her own, is the story of ALL women finding space for themselves against the 'very important men' in their lives. It's the story of every woman's life.
