Anne Gesthuysen, GIRLS NIGHT

Kiepenheuer & Witsch - Novel - Hardcover - November 2018 - 384 pages

Skillfully interweaving past and present, Anne Gesthuysen tells the turbulent story of female lives in the Lower Rhine, spanning the Second World War, the stuffiness of the 1950s, the wild 70s and the present day.
Ruth and Walter have been living in a retirement home since Ruth suffered a fall. While Walter longs to return home immediately, Ruths enjoys the company of kinder spirits.
When Ruth’s granddaughter Sara, mother to a young son, is offered a research grant in Cambridge and forced by her husband to make a choice, she seeks Ruth’s advice.

• “Moderator Anne Gesthuysen strikes the right note: the women in this novel immediately grow on you.” - Freundin

• “An entertaining appeal, both to women and men, not to subject their wishes for self-realization to social norms.” - Rheinische Post

• ““ Girls Night” is a very pleasant family history.” - Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung

• English sample translation available

• 30 weeks on the SPIEGEL Best Seller list