Loved and Missed

AS MENTIONED ON NETFLIX'S HIT SERIES, VLADIMIR

'Hopeful . . . heroic, humorous' OBSERVER
'Infinitely tender' REV RICHARD COLES, DAILY MAIL
'A really stunning read' VOGUE
'The sort of book you can't wait to recommend to everyone you know' RUMAAN ALAM, author of LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND

Ruth loves her wild, reckless daughter Eleanor. But when Eleanor is too lost in the haze of drug addiction to look after the baby she has just had, Ruth decides to take the child away. She loves Eleanor. But this time, raising her granddaughter, she'll get the love right.

Love and Missed is a whip-smart, incisive and mordantly witty novel about love in all its forms, full of insight and compassion.

'That rare balance of brutal and hopeful and not at all trite' SABA SAMS, author of GUNK

'Deftly sidesteps the clichés that often plague stories involving drug abuse, and it conveys the complexities of loving someone who can't love you back with remarkable delicacy' FINANCIAL TIMES

'Austerely beautiful' NEW YORK TIMES

'A complex, deeply moving novel . . . that captures the pain of estrangement in penetrating, haunting language' INDEPENDENT

'Both funny . . . and poignant . . . but never less than impeccably truthful, with a broad, oft breathtaking wisdom' IRISH INDEPENDENT

'A humanly astute novel . . . she captures so much so deftly' CLAIRE MESSUD, GUARDIAN

'Enough to disarm even the most cynical readers' ATLANTIC

'The achievement of a serious novelist who has blossomed into originality and who deserves a wide audience' SPECTATOR

'I was in the story, feeling everything . . . She writes beautifully. It was a total pleasure' PHILIPPA PERRY, author of THE BOOK YOU WISH YOUR PARENTS HAD READ