Book description
'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 Read
Susie Boyt writes with a mordant wit and vivid style which are at their best…
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2 authors picked Loved and Missed as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I don't often cry when I read, but I wept during Susie Boyt's LOVED AND MISSED about a woman who raises her addict daughter's baby, not selflessly but as an attempt at a do-over. The writing, the emotional complexity, the depth and pain, all of it wrecked me.
This is a story about a woman with a daughter who struggles with drug addiction and who, when her daughter becomes pregnant, ends up raising her granddaughter. It's not an usual story, and yet, Boyt covers it with so much empathy, so much warmth, such an ability to see and understand these characters, it's a revolution in tenderness. I falls into none of the traps of over-simplification or maudlin scene that usually accompany this kind of book. It's just wonderful.
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