The Whole Wide Beauty: A Novel - Hardcover

Emily Woof has acted in such films as The Full Monty, Velvet Goldmine, and Wondrous Oblivion. She studied at Oxford University and lives with her husband and two children in London, England.

“[A] stirring debut....Though Woof's English characters outwardly maintain the stiffest of upper lips, their tumultuous inner worlds make for a sensuous, moving drama of love and family.”
- Publishers Weekly

“Demonstrates a well-tuned sensitivity to the complications of human existence.”
- Mary Fitzgerald, The Observer

“This is an admirable, intense first novel, serious and insightful ... I am excited to see what Woof will go on to write next.”
- Adam Foulds, The Guardian

“An immensely readable novel ... marks her as a debut novelist of the first order.”
- Adam O'Riordan, Financial Times

“In The Whole Wide Beauty, Emily Woof untangles the threads of passion and loyalty, love and art that tie us together. What she gives us is a powerful novel that leaves us hopeful and inspired about our own lives.”
- Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle

“I loved Emily Woof’s novel. It stayed with me like a jewel while I was reading it, in the way the best books do. It's such a passionate and devastating look at love and loneliness.”
- Esther Freud, author of Love Falls and Hideous Kinky

“Woof elegantly dissects the transactions of desire, individual and familial, in this disquieting novel.”
- Nikita Lalwani, author of Gifted