Loved and Missed

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The exquisite and heart-breaking exploration of love and loss, ` a gentle masterpiece' highly-praised by reviewers ranging from Philippa Perry, Richard Coles, Andrew O'Hagan, Joan Bakewell. 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 PerryThis beautiful tale of love, courage and compassion...captures the pain of estrangement in penetrating, haunting language... Loved and Missed is a complex, deeply moving novel ? Independenta minor masterpiece...riveting, exquisitely written...Piercingly insightful and skilfully plotted, it has so much to say about mothers and daughters MAIL ON SUNDAYBoyt is both funny...and poignant...but never less than impeccably truthful, with a broad, oft breathtaking wisdom -- Irish IndependentBoyt's novel is compelling - and invites our compassion for those who may not always earn it, but still deserve it. --The Sunday Telegraphhopeful... heroic, humorous The ObserverAn acute, enormously moving study of familial love, iNewspaper 'I was in the story, feeling everything. I cared about every character . . . She writes beautifully. It was a total pleasure' Philippa Perry, author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had ReadSusie Boyt writes with a mordant wit and vivid style which are at their 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 willpower and a daring creative zeal carry you through ?Examining the limits, disappointments and excesses of love in all its forms, this marvellously absorbing novel, full of insight and compassion, delights as much as it disturbs.'She takes the study of love into uncharted territory and every sentence has its depth and pleasure' Linda Grant'I am so moved: it carries a huge emotional power... I ache for them all. Poignant, witty, lyrical and perceptive' Joan Bakewell

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Pagina's: 208, Editie: Eerste editie, Paperback, Little, Brown Book Group