My Dear I Wanted To Tell You

Author: Louisa Young

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  • : $24.99 NZD
  • : 9780007361441
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : The Borough Press
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  • : April 2011
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : English
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Description

A letter, two lovers, a terrible lie. In war, truth is only the first casualty. 'Inspires the kind of devotion among its readers not seen since David Nicholls' One Day' The Times While Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country, their survival and their sanity in the trenches of Flanders, Nadine Waveney, Julia Locke and Rose Locke do what they can at home. Beautiful, obsessive Julia and gentle, eccentric Peter are married: each day Julia goes through rituals to prepare for her beloved husband's return. Nadine and Riley, only eighteen when the war starts, and with problems of their own already, want above all to make promises - but how can they when the future is not in their hands? And Rose? Well, what did happen to the traditionally brought-up women who lost all hope of marriage, because all the young men were dead? Moving between Ypres, London and Paris, My Dear I Wanted to Tell You is a deeply affecting, moving and brilliant novel of love and war, and how they affect those left behind as well as those who fight.

Awards

Winner of Galaxy National Book Awards: audible.co.uk Audiobook of the Year 2011 Shortlisted for Costa Novel Award 2011.

Reviews

'Every once in a while comes a novel that generates its own success, simply by being loved. Louisa Young's My Dear I Wanted to Tell You inspires the kind of devotion among its readers not seen since David Nicholls One Day' The Times Birdsong for the new millennium' Tatler 'Unmissable! In crisp poignant prose Young explores what war really means in terms of mental anguish, while cleverly commenting on class and sex' Marie Claire 'Weaving heartbreakingly painful irony, heroic sacrifice, human weakness, vanity, tragedy and the purest of loves, you'll be left sobbing and grasping onto any hope that all is not lost amid the poppies, the guns and the hospital beds' Easy Living 'A memorable and unusual novel which explores new ground in the literature of the Great War' Linda Grant 'This novel is a triumph' Elizabeth Jane Howard 'Young has a historian's eye for the private details of war, and a warmth to her prose that makes her small cast emotionally engaging! Through Riley, however, the novel achieves an appeal to compassion and courage that deserves to reach a wide audience! Hindsight tells us peace will not be final, but Young conveys, beautifully, the universal wish that it might be' Independent 'Beautifully realised' Daily

Author description

Louisa Young was born in London. She was for many years a freelance journalist, working mostly for the motorcycle press, for Marie Claire and for the Guardian. She has travelled widely and published ten books. She lives in London and Italy with her daughter and the composer Robert Lockhart. She is the adult half of Zizou Corder, authors of the best-selling Lionboy trilogy, which is published in 36 languages.