I Couldn't Love You More

- Reviews -

I Couldn' t Love You More is completely, inspiringly wonderful. I read it non-stop through the night, finding myself simultaneously uplifted and wrung out by the emotional power of the story and by its ambitious social and historical range. It couldn' t be better -- BARBARA TRAPIDO This exquisite family saga reads as a love letter between four generations of women. Everything is here; family ghosts, the bond between mothers and daughters, cruelty, endurance, the difficulty of love, and a faith in the possibility of healing - even after years of separation. This tender, elegant book delivers an emotional punch that left me in tears -- RACHEL JOYCE A new Esther Freud novel is always such a treat and I couldn' t love this one more -- POLLY SAMSON Beautiful, moving, wonderful . . . Let me be the first (but not the last) to say I couldn' t love it more -- SAM BAKER In this fascinating novel, Freud interweaves the stories of a daughter, mother and grandmother to show how past hurts and dreams drip down through generations. The women' s characters and circumstances are beautifully evoked as are their struggles not to be defined by men or convention. Freud knits their plights together to create an utterly readable and compelling narrative -- HANNAH ROTHSCHILD I love this book. It feels like the novel Esther Freud has been waiting to write her whole life. The tenderness of the mother-daughter bond, the cruelties and prejudice of old Ireland, the vitality of 1960s London all beautifully realised -- AMANDA CRAIG I hugely enjoyed it. She is such a compelling writer, so good at evoking atmosphere -- LYNN BARBER A breathtakingly beautiful book, a story of absolutely vivid originality but also one that addresses those fundamental complexities that ripple through human life, transcendent of time and of place and repeated through generations at whatever age -- JULIET NICOLSON Freud is a modern literary rarity: a born storyteller, poetic but never overwrought; thoughtful but never showy * THE TIMES * As close to a perfect novel as anything I' ve read in a long time -- ANN PATCHETT Full of pitch-perfect observation, spiced with wry humour * OBSERVER * You know how it is when a writer draws into a place and you begin to feel it is more substantial than the one around you? That is how this book was for me. I truly loved it -- RACHEL JOYCE In a culture which dins with brashness and self-advertisement, attending to Esther Freud' s still, truthful voice becomes not only a pleasure but a necessity -- JONATHAN COE A highly talented writer * INDEPENDENT * A superbly gifted writer . . . Freud creates relationships so fraught and delicate that at times the characters can hardly bear to examine them . . . She explores them with a dazzling clarity that reveals her true, writer' s calling * NEW YORK TIMES *

- Author Bio -

Esther Freud trained as an actress before writing her first novel, Hideous Kinky, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys prize and made into a film starring Kate Winslet. After publishing her second novel, Peerless Flats, she was chosen as one of Granta' s Best Young British novelists. Her other books include The Sea House, Lucky Break, and Mr Mac and Me, which won Best Novel in the East Anglian Book Awards. She contributes regularly to newspapers and magazines, and teaches creative writing with her own local group. Her first full length play Stitchers was produced at the Jermyn St Theatre in 2018, and in 2019 she was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. I Couldn' t Love You More is her ninth novel. She lives in London. www. estherfreud. co. uk

- Full Details -

Status:	Active
ISBN-13:	9781526629920
Published:	26 May 2022
Published In:	United Kingdom
Imprint:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format:	Paperback
Height:	198mm
Width:	129mm
Pages:	368

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