"Utterly and terrifyingly gripping - quite beautifully written and constructed...I can't praise it highly enough." Joanna Lumley

"Rather like Larkin's infamous poem about parents, this is a novel about how one generation's difficulties impact on another. Told in slivers, from the perspective of each of its characters, and flickering backwards and forwards in time, it builds to a crescendo as the interlocking lives of three generations are slotted together. It's a novel that is suffused with a love of storytelling, and a warmth that makes it a pleasure to read." Daily Mail

When human beings don't talk about love, things go wrong.

If a mother had told her daughter that she loved her, they might not have spent years apart. If a man had found the courage to tell a woman that he loved her she might never have married another man. And if a father had told his daughter that he loved her when her mother died, she might not have suffered the breakdown that caused the rift with her own daughter.

But if you are born into a family that never talks about love, how do you learn to say the words?

SPEAKING of LOVE is a novel about what happens when people who love each other don’t say so. It deals passionately and honestly with human breakdown. And it tells of our need for stories and how stories can help make sense of the random nature of life.

Angela Young lives and works in London. This is her first novel.

Details

• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 9781905636228
• Publication date: 6th March 2008
• Format: B format paperback
• Pages: 352
• RRP: £7.99

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