{"title":"Books by Chloe Caldwell","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780008254940","title":"Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘A beautiful read \/ a perfect primer for an explosive lesbian affair \/ an essential truth’ LENA DUNHAM\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cult-classic novella that intimately explores one young writer’s whirlwind and whiplash affair as she falls deeply in love with a woman for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of Cosmopolitan UK's Best Erotic Novels of All Time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I have meditated repeatedly on what it was about Finn that had me so dismantled.' A young woman moves from the countryside to the city. Inexplicably, inexorably and immediately, she falls in love with another woman for the first time in her life. Finn is nineteen years older than her, wears men’s clothes, has a cocky smirk of a smile – and a long-term girlfriend. With precision, wit and tenderness, Women charts the frenzy and the fall out of love.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou'll devour it in one sitting 'VOGUE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Her prose has a reckless beauty that feels to me like magic' CHERYL STRAYED 'A contemporary classic of queer women's writing' MICHELLE TEA\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201198719154,"sku":"9780008254940","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008254940.jpg?v=1785658968"},{"product_id":"9781593766993","title":"The Red Zone","description":"\u003cb\u003eA searching, galvanizing memoir about blood and love: how learning more about her period, PMS, PMDD, and the effects of hormones on moods transformed her relationships—to a new partner, to family, to non-blood kin, and to her own body—from the beloved essayist and author of \u003ci\u003eWomen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChloe Caldwell’s period has often felt inconvenient, uncomfortable, or even painful. It’s only once she’s in her thirties, as she’s falling in love with Tony, a musician and single dad, that its effects on her mood start to dominate her life. Spurred by the intensity and seriousness of her new relationship, it strikes her: her outbursts of anxiety and rage match her hormonal cycle. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCompelled to understand the truth of what’s happening to her, Chloe documents attitudes toward menstruation among her peers and family, reads Reddit threads about PMS, attends a conference called Break the Cycle, and learns about premenstrual dysphoric disorder, PMDD, which helps her name what she’s been going through. For Chloe, healing isn’t about finding a single cure. It means reflecting on underlying patterns in her life: her feelings about her queer identity and writing persona in the context of a heterosexual relationship; how her parents’ divorce contributed to her issues with trust; and what it means to blend a family. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Red Zone\u003c\/i\u003e is a candid, revelatory memoir for anyone grappling with controversial medical diagnoses and labels of all kinds. It’s about coming to terms with the fact that—along with proper treatment—self-acceptance, self-compassion, and transcending shame are the ultimate keys to relief. It’s also about love: how challenging it can be, how it reveals your weaknesses and wounds, and how, if you allow it, it will push you to grow and change.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304679813493,"sku":"9781593766993","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781593766993_931587d3-b638-4a6a-a520-0f8ead1fd901.jpg?v=1786023021"},{"product_id":"9780857309365","title":"Trying","description":"Over the years that Chloe Caldwell had been married and hoping to conceive a child, she'd read everything she could find on infertility. But no memoir or message board reflected her experience; for one thing, most stories ended with in vitro fertilization, a baby or both. She wanted to offer something different. Caldwell began a book. She imagined a selective journal about her experience coping with stasis and uncertainty. Is it time to quit coffee, find a new acupuncturist, get another blood test? Her questions extended to her job at a clothing boutique and to her teaching and writing practice. Why do people love equating publishing books with giving birth? What is the right amount of money to spend on pants or fertility treatments? How much trying is enough? She ignored the sense that something else in her life was wrong that was not on the page... until she extracted a confession from her husband. Broken by betrayal but freed from domesticity, Caldwell felt reawakened, to long-buried desires, to her queer identity, to pleasure and possibility. She kept writing, making sense of her new reality as it took shape. With the candour, irreverence, and heart that have made Caldwell's work beloved, Trying intimately captures a self in a continuous process of becoming - and the mysterious ways that writing informs that process.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56367807332725,"sku":"9780857309365","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857309365_710deb89-32f3-4519-9e7c-6c822a3bad1f.jpg?v=1786016028"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-chloe-caldwell.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}