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Loved and Missed

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    • Susie Boyt
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'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 in Loved and Missed.
When your beloved daughter is lost in the fog of addiction and you make off with her baby in order to save the day, can willpower and a daring creative zeal carry you through ?
Examining the limits, disappointments and excesses of love in all its forms, this marvellously absorbing novel, full of insight and compassion, delights as much as it disturbs.

'She takes the study of love into uncharted territory and every sentence has its depth and pleasure' Linda Grant
'I am so moved: it carries a huge emotional power... I ache for them all. Poignant, witty, lyrical and perceptive' Joan Bakewell

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  • Published: Jun 16 2022
  • Pages: 208
  • 198 x 134mm
  • ISBN: 9780349015033
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Press Reviews

  • Philippa Perry, author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read

    I was in the story, feeling everything. I cared about every character . . . She writes beautifully. It was a total pleasure
  • Tamsin Greig

    Always surprising - unexpected, particular, the thing you didn't know you wanted, but needed more than anything. A tender study of unrequited maternal love redeemed ultimately by the quiet glory of not giving up
  • Linda Grant

    She takes the study of love into uncharted territory and every sentence has its depths and pleasures
  • Shena Mackay

    Her writing has a Keatsian belief in the holiness of the Heart's affections . . . a beautiful work of art, a page-turning narrative with wise and funny observations and dialogue . . . both heart-breaking and consoling
  • Joan Bakewell

    I am so moved: it carries a huge emotional power . . . I ached for them all. Poignant, witty, lyrical and perceptive
  • Lisa Dwan

    A novel of profound courage and consideration; every page a kaleidoscope of thoughtful insight into human frailty and complexity . . . one of the greatest visceral studies of love I have ever experienced
  • Martin Chilton

    Independent
    This beautiful tale of love, courage and compassion...captures the pain of estrangement in penetrating, haunting language... Loved and Missed is a complex, deeply moving novel about frailty and suffering. Despite all the sadness, hope remains
  • Marianka Swain

    The Sunday Telegraph, Novel of the Week
    It's an arresting premise for Susie Boyt's thoughtprovoking seventh novel...Boyt's novel is compelling - and invites our compassion for those who may not always earn it, but still deserve it.
  • Emily Hourican

    Irish Independent
    Boyt is both funny...and poignant...but never less than impeccably truthful, with a broad, oft breathtaking wisdom
  • Mia Levitin

    Financial Times
    Loved and Missed 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.
  • Fiona Sturges

    i
    An acute, enormously moving study of familial love, and how the bonds between a mother and child can rupture, sometimes inexplicably.
  • Marianka Swain

    Daily Telegraph
    Boyt's novel is compelling-and invites our compassion for those who may not always earn it, but still deserve it
  • Spectator
    To wrest exquisite prose and engaging narrative out of a tale of pain and sorrow is the achievement of a serious novelist who has blossomed into originality and who deserves a wide audience
  • MSN
    Boyt's writing is perceptive and emotionally powerful
  • Rev Richard Coles

    Daily Mail
    I adored Susie Boyt's novel Loved And Missed, which explores what can happen when, out of the blue, addiction and dereliction arrive to wreck a family. And how goodwill, determination and encouragement can ultimately put things back together again.
  • Atlantic
    Regret and joy are an indivisible duo for any mother or father, and Boyt wisely mixes them into a beautifully humane chronicle. With this exquisite devotional of a novel, she has turned the ability to find contentment in the muck of parenthood into a courageous art form