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The Prelude Girl

By Marjorie Gavan
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By Marjorie Gavan
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Have you ever been the "placeholder" in someone else's love story?

The Prelude Girl is Marjorie Gavan's unflinchingly honest collection of 26 modern poems about almost-love - about being the one before the one. In spare yet cinematic lines, she traces the ache of "unfinished emotions", the moment she names herself a prelude girl, and the hard-won grace of choosing herself again.

These poems are for anyone who has:

  • loved fiercely and been left with "full hearts and nowhere to place them,"
  • ask...