Pillowtalk: Stef Penney
By Jackie May for The Times:
Stef Penney’s latest book is The Invisible Ones. She won the Costa book award for The Tenderness Of Wolves.
What are you reading?
The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard.
In a nutshell?
This is the story of Jenny, an English woman who escapes a messy family background to work in Naples after the war.
Jenny dates a Scottish colleague, but their brittle, tentative courtship is overshadowed by the intense friendship Jenny strikes up with Gioconda, a beautiful writer, and her married lover, Gianni.
Why read it?
It’s far more than a relationship drama and the characters are spiky and complex.
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