Love Stories: Uplifting True Stories about Love from the Internationally Bestselling Author of Boy Swallows Universe
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4.5 • 155 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
WINNER, INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR
Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?'
A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a priest. A geologist discovers a three-minute video recorded by his wife before she died. A tree lopper's heart falls in a forest. A working mum contemplates taking photographs of her late husband down from her fridge. A girl writes a last letter to the man she loves most, then sets it on fire. A palliative care nurse helps a dying woman converse with the angel at the end of her bed. A renowned 100-year-old scientist ponders the one great earthly puzzle he was never able to solve: 'What is love?'
Endless stories. Human stories. Love stories.
Inspired by a personal moment of profound love and generosity, Trent Dalton, bestselling author and one of Australia's finest journalists, spent two months in 2021 speaking to people from all walks of life, asking them one simple and direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?' The result is an immensely warm, poignant, funny and moving book about love in all its guises, including observations, reflections and stories of people falling into love, falling out of love, and never letting go of the loved ones in their hearts. A heartfelt, deep, wise and tingly tribute to the greatest thing we will never understand and the only thing we will ever really need: love.
'It's the kind of book that has some impact on the reader ... a Chaucerian endeavour, a rich caravanserai of real, living people with something important to tell.' Sydney Morning Herald
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Inspired by the gift of a bequeathed typewriter, self-described “cheeseball” Trent Dalton wanders around Brisbane’s CBD asking strangers to tell him their love stories. The result is this astonishingly beautiful and heartbreaking collection of stories, letters and observations. It is written with the acumen of Dalton’s long-form journalism (The Weekend Australian Magazine) and the sparkle of his bestselling novels (Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies). Sentimentality can sometimes be looked on with disdain, but here, it punches the air out of your chest, fills your eyes with tears, inspires you to call your loved ones straight away and tell them how much they mean to you. Late in the book one of Dalton’s storytellers writes him a letter to say, “Thank you for your ability to distil emotion.” We concur. Love Stories perfectly conveys the exquisite pleasure and pain of what it is to love and be loved in return.
Customer Reviews
Made my heart sing
A joyous and beautifully crafted collection of love in all its guises, crafted with such a light touch but the stories will resonate in my heart long into the future ❤️
Beautiful tales from the heart
Thanks for being so honest as your self and celebrating it.
Brilliant!
Everyone should read this!! Heartbreakingly beautiful.
Connection is everything and this book is a testament to that.
Trent is such a wonderful storyteller.