True Love

Paddy Crewe's excellent second book will be one of the best things that you read all year * Observer * Remarkable . . . Crewe’s sensitivity to the tentacles of neglect in his characters is phenomenal. Time and again he captures a deep human truth. * Sunday Times * Crewe recounts in lavish, unhurried prose [the protagonists'] respective childhoods, their abrupt coming together, their gradual drifting apart, and the love that keeps the two connected throughout like a magnetic thread . . . There's an earnestness to the writing, yet it’s a heart scorcher just the same. Read it and indulge * Daily Mail * This slow-burn love story is gorgeously written, with two characters you won’t forget easily * Good Housekeeping * Effective and moving . . . Crewe’s prose sings * Financial Times * True Love is a perfect read if you’re looking for a character-driven novel with split narratives or a coming-of-age story that is both heartbreaking and uplifting, reminiscent of Sally Rooney’s work * Press Association * Invokes this sense of melancholy with true deftness . . . Crewe’s unabashed desire to move his readers is to be genuinely commended . . . A full-throated, heart-on-sleeve piece of storytelling * Guardian * Crewe's story is . . . one of low, heavy emotions. But it is sustained throughout by the gruff lyricism of his writing . . . And while the novel moves at a steady pace, it builds to a climactic final third * New Statesman * Paddy Crewe writes with a lyrical, lonely prose that’s full of the kind of tenderness which both frightens and saves us * Minnie Driver * Empathetic, honest, compelling. I’ll read anything Paddy Crewe writes. * Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry *