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I was in the story feeling everything. I cared about every character . . . She writes beautifully. It was a total pleasure' Philippa PerryOften hailed as a modern day Muriel Spark, Susie Boyt writes with a mordant wit and vivid style which are at their brilliant best in Loved and Missed.When your beloved daughter is lost in the fog of addiction, and you make off with her baby in order to save the day, can will power and a daring creative zeal ...

Often hailed as a modern day Muriel Spark, Susie Boyt writes with a mordant wit and vivid style which are at their brilliant best in Loved and Missed.When your beloved daughter is lost in the fog of addiction, and you make off with her baby in order to save the day, can will power and a daring creative zeal carry you through? Examining the limits, disappointments and excesses of love in all its forms, this is a marvellously absorbing book, ful...

When Ruth's beloved, reckless daughter is too caught up in drugs to look after her baby, Ruth decides to make off with the child. This time she'll get the love right.`I had that brilliant rare experience of the book being so good that I was in it and forgot I was reading' - Philippa Perry`This beautiful tale of love, courage and compassion ... captures the pain of estrangement in penetrating, haunting language ... a complex, deeply moving nove...

An irresistible mixture of memoir, biography, cultural analysis, experiment and hero-worship about one person's enduring obsession. Anniversary Edition with new preface published to coincide with the new film, Judy, starring Rene Zellweger.

One autumn in London Eve Swift, a nervous young actress from an esteemed theatrical dynasty, finds herself - surprisingly - married to an even-tempered expert on anxiety called Jim.Across town, tabloid journalist Rebecca Melville is burning all her bridges while her devoted sister Beatrice, a therapist, tries her hardest not to intervene.How far can Eve and Rebecca go without losing the admiration of the people they love?'A book that manages t...

`From Charlotte Bronte's Lucy Snowe through Muriel Spark's Jean Brodie to Roald Dahl's Miss Honey, schoolmistresses have been among the best-loved characters in fiction.In Susie Boyt's Harriet Mansfield there is a new name to add to that list...a brilliant portrait.' Daily Mail `Boyt is a compassionate chronicler of the human heart . . .. In Harriet Mansfield, she has drawn a character whose moral and emotional courage is both convincing and h...

A subtle and intimate portrayal of contemporary life

The new novel from the author of The Small Hours

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