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Sophie Ward

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Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction

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Sophie Ward is the winner of the 2018 RA and Pin Drop short story award with her story 'Sunbed'. Her first book, A Marriage Proposal, was published by the Guardian in 2014. Her debut novel, Love and Other Thought Experiments, was published in February 2020 by Corsair and was longlisted for the Booker Prize in July 2020. ...more

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The different points of view in the narration of the stories in "Love and Other Thought Experiments" is something that confused me, made me think for hours after I put the book down and still linger in my head (but I absolutely enjoyed reading them). What inspired you to write stories from such different points of view?

Sophie Ward I've always loved stories that open up the possibilities of different points of view, and remind us how subjective is our own narration. I'm so glad y…moreI've always loved stories that open up the possibilities of different points of view, and remind us how subjective is our own narration. I'm so glad you enjoyed the book.(less)

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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Sophie Ward I couldn't possibly tell as that would definitely be a spoiler one day...: )…moreI couldn't possibly tell as that would definitely be a spoiler one day...: )(less)

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Average rating: 3.53 · 7,169 ratings · 1,009 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Love and Other Thought Experiments 3.59 avg rating — 6,129 ratings — published 2020 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Schoolhouse 3.28 avg rating — 1,266 ratings — published 2022 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sunbed 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We are not a brain. We are the purest distillation of consciousness without any of the distractions.”
― Sophie Ward, Love and Other Thought Experiments

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“In their four years together she had often felt like this, both there and not there, connected, yet keeping a part of herself separate, as though for emergencies.”
― Sophie Ward, Love and Other Thought Experiments

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“She had become the sort of person she approved of but she wasn’t sure she had chosen anything she actually wanted. She”
― Sophie Ward, Love and Other Thought Experiments

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Sophie’s Quotes

“That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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