Read ‘Greta’ from Rebecca Miller’s Personal Velocity
From the author of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, a Richard & Judy Summer Read 2008 and Sunday Times bestseller, comes a vibrantly fresh and lustrous short story collection. Rebecca Miller explores the multifaceted lives of women in seven arresting portraits.
Modern and diverse, these women of different classes and ages struggle with sexuality, fate, motherhood, infidelity, desperation, and an overriding will to survive.
In this extract we meet Greta, a cookbook editor who is chosen by Tavi, the hottest writer of his generation, to edit his new book. The book becomes a best-seller and Greta is propelled out of her marriage by her own ambition and success.
Read ‘Greta’, from Rebecca Miller’s Personal Velocity
Personal Velocity was adapted into a critically-acclaimed film of the same name, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2002.
