Charlotte Levin has been shortlisted for the Andrea Badenoch Award, part of the New Writers North Awards, and for the Mslexia Short Story Competition. Charlotte lives in Manchester and If I Can't Have You is her first novel.
So beautifully written, such a devastatingly compelling story. I can honestly say it’s one of the best books I’ve ever read - it is without shadow of a doubt, EASILY up there with The Girl on the Train and Eleanor Oliphant -- Ruth Jones This is superb. The main character Constance is brilliantly flawed and so compassionately drawn - it’s raw and compulsive and disturbing and very well done indeed -- Harriet Tyce, author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick <i>Blood Orange</i> An exceptionally raw and visceral and painfully funny novel. Charlotte Levin writes so well and so powerfully about loneliness, longing, love and loss that Constance will stay with me for a long time -- Emma Flint, Women's Prize longlisted author of <i>Little Deaths</i> A blackly comic but heartfelt story of love and loneliness, with an endearing and damaged heroine * Sunday Mirror * A darkly comic and beautifully written debut novel * Woman * Blackly comic, heartrendingly sad . . . a brilliant debut novel * Best * Compulsively readable and darkly funny with pin-sharp characterization. Love love loved it -- Laura Marshall, <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Friend Request</i> Brilliant. A perfect and completely terrifying depiction of heartbreak and obsession -- Sarah Powell, presenter, founder of ‘Celebrate Yourself’ and Red Magazine columnist