The Party

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Lucy is a devoted wife to Martin, even as she knows she'll always be second best to his sacred friendship. When Ben throws a lavish 40th birthday party as his new palatial country home, Martin and Lucy attend, mixing with the very upper echelons of London society. I got very sweaty during a Zoom call earlier. I fail to return phone calls and texts a lot. That makes me worry I’m a failure as a friend. Any time I get a negative review, I remind myself that there are people out there who don’t like cheese But Martin has a secret. He knows something about Ben, something he will never tell. It is a secret that will bind the two of them together for the best part of 25 years. Author and broadcaster Elizabeth Day, 42, was raised in Belfast and later became an award-winning journalist, including a nine-year stint at the Observer. In 2018 she launched the podcast How to Fail, which has topped the iTunes chart, spawning live events and two books. She hosts Open Book on Radio 4, Sky Arts Book Club and is a judge for this year’s Women’s prize for fiction. She’s the author of five novels, the latest of which is Magpie. Cheese is an integral part of my happiness. I’m half-Swiss and our national dish is basically a bowl of melted cheese, so it’s in my DNA. My favourite cheese is an aged comté or gruyère. Although a slice of cheddar on a hot buttered crumpet takes some beating.

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Warning: There are two very graphic, gratuitous descriptions of animal cruelty in this book. I jumped past both of them. Starred Review. Day's latest is a dark, haunting, and elegantly crafted tale of obsession, desperation, devastation, and rebirth." - Kirkus Al final, las motivaciones subyacentes que guían el comportamiento de nuestros tres personajes principales se pueden intuir de forma bastante clara a medida que avanza el libro. Esto ha hecho, a mi entender, que el nivel de la parte final del libro haya bajado un poquito. Por eso no le doy las 5 estrellas El titulo original The Party en la edición de Duomo se cambia a El Invitado, que me parece bastante acertado. El invitado en este caso es Martin y su esposa Lucy, que acuden a la fiesta por todo lo alto del cuarenta cumpleaños de Ben Fitzmaurice, el mejor amigo de Martin desde sus tiempos de internado. Sin embargo, en esta fiesta ocurre algo que obligará a los personajes que forman parte de esta historia a revisar todo un pasado de amistad entre Ben y Martin y la autora decide hacerlo bajo varios puntos de vista paralelos y diferentes: el punto de vista de Martin revisando su pasado desde que conoce a Ben, los diarios de Lucy Gilmour, la esposa de Martin, el interrogatorio a Martin en la comisaria de policia y finalmente la fiesta en si que es donde reside de alguna forma la culminación de todo. La clave de la historia es Martin, que es el invitado y para entender esta fiesta, hay que conocer antes, de dónde viene Martin. Day, Elizabeth (2004). "Why women love journalism". British Journalism Review. Vol.15, no.2. pp.21–25. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013.The staff at The Pig could not have been nicer or more accommodating – by the end of the day, they truly felt like family. Justin’s middle son, Dan, gave an incredible best man’s speech and then we sat down to watch the film made by our friends and family. More tears ensued. Martin Gilmour is an outsider. When he wins a scholarship to Burtonbury School, he doesn't wear the right clothes or speak with the right kind of accent. But then he meets the dazzling, popular and wealthy Ben Fitzmaurice, and gains admission to an exclusive world. Soon Martin is enjoying tennis parties and Easter egg hunts at the Fitzmaurice family's estate, as Ben becomes the brother he never had. No, that would be interminably smug [ laughs]. I’m extremely aware that some people find the notion of How to Fail trite, but I don’t think they’re properly engaging with the premise. They’re failing, in fact, so they’re accidentally on-brand. The Fitzmaurice family is painted like many well-worn old money types, giving them an air of power and entitlement that appears unshakeable. Upon my first reflections, I thought the author may have gone a little overboard with her depictions of grand wealth, depending too heavily on stereotypes, coming dangerously close to turning the family into caricatures. But, on second thought, they may have been predictable cardboard figures most of the time, but, they played their roles chillingly well. I returned to London with a hangover. Over Christmas, my husband and I argued. He couldn’t understand why I was still upset over the miscarriage and I failed to understand why he couldn’t. By February, our marriage was over. I moved out, taking two bags of clothes. I didn’t know what I was doing, but some instinct told me I had to do it.

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I just got one of my dream guests, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and she was incredible. Still on my list are Marcus Rashford, Dr Dre, Michael Jordan or either of the Obamas. But why, the next morning, is Martin in a police station being interviewed about the events of last night? Why is Lucy being forced to answer questions about his husband and his past? What exactly happened at the party? And what has bound these two very different men together for so many years? Martin's inability to accept that he's gay, and his unrequited love for Ben is a frustrating catalyst for me. All these cruel people who would seemingly make Martin's life worse for daring to be who he really is feels so grossly sad. It was an occasion filled with love. Uncomplicated, straightforward, really-quite-glaringly-obvious love. The simplicity of a day with fewer guests only added to that magic. There was a sense of enormous good fortune that we were all there, that we had made it through a difficult year and that there was now something to celebrate. My marriage started to disintegrate. Seeing babies being pushed along the street in buggies caused me a stab of psychic pain,’ Elizabeth Day. Photograph: Sophia Spring/The Observer

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Brankin, Una (2 June 2015). "Elizabeth Day on the scandal that inspired her brilliant new novel". Belfast Telegraph . Retrieved 23 August 2015. He disfrutado mucho de esta novela, que es de este tipo de lecturas que la vas saboreando porque te gusta el estilo en el que se desenvuelve la autora, inteligente e irónica, y al mismo tiempo te mantiene enganchada, pero enganchada no de una forma tramposa, sino que Elizabeth Day mantiene el ritmo con una destreza poco habitual, ya que lo habitual es que los autores mantengan el enganche del lector con trampas varias y estiramientos de chicle, pero éste no es el caso. The night of the party- What happened at that party? The tension at this party is nearly unbearable. There is a lot going on here. The characterizations are very well done, and the dialogue is razor sharp. Elizabeth Day’s first novel, Scissors, Paper, Stone which I really enjoyed won a Betty Trask award So I was really looking forward to her latest book and when I saw it compared to The Dinner by Herman Koch I was really excited about the read.

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Taylor, Catherine (15 January 2011). "Scissors Paper Stone by Elizabeth Day – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 20 February 2021. Katsoulis, Melissa (23 January 2011). "Scissors, Paper, Stone by Elizabeth Day: review". The Telegraph . Retrieved 20 February 2021. Scholes, Lucy (16 July 2017). " The Party by Elizabeth Day review – well-paced literary thriller". The Observer . Retrieved 27 March 2020. Groskop, Viv (14 March 2013). " Home Fires by Elizabeth Day – review". The Observer . Retrieved 27 March 2020.BBC appoints Telegraph's Kamal Ahmed as business editor". BBC News. 20 December 2013 . Retrieved 21 December 2013. There were more than a few times that I wanted to stop reading this book, relegate it to my DNF list, and move on, but I often feel a need to finish books that I've received thanks to NetGalley and each book's publisher. Viscerali, e forse pure un po’ morbose, tanto da pensare che l’altro sia il nostro unico faro nella nebbia. I liked that phrase, because Joan is who I turn to at the hinges of my own personal history. She has journeyed with me through it all with endless reserves of compassion and kindness. I feel so grateful that the darkest point in my life brought me here, to one of the brightest friendships. En conjunto es una buena lectura, aunque la traducción te puede sacar de la historia con momentos como:

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There is good acting all around: Clarkson gets all the best lines - albeit at the expense of depth of character - but that merely makes the others work harder with the lines they have been given. Thomas, whose character is the most fully-formed, is noteworthy. a b Brankin, Una (1 June 2015). "Elizabeth Day on the scandal that inspired her brilliant new novel". belfasttelegraph. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 20 February 2021.

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Elizabeth Day and Johny Pitts are the new presenters of Open Book". www.bbc.co.uk. 15 January 2021 . Retrieved 20 February 2021. Glass, Katie (31 March 2019). "How to Fail by Elizabeth Day review — even divorce has a bright side". The Sunday Times . Retrieved 27 March 2020. (subscription required) Estar rodeado de gente así, gente rica, privilegiada, guapa, egoísta, no es bueno para el alma. Piensan en sí mismos todo al tiempo que fingen ser todo generosidad. El resto de nosotros no les importamos. No es una maldad consciente, tan solo la incapacidad de imaginar cómo son las vidas de los demás".