- Hardcover: 312 pages
- Publisher: Beautiful Books Limited (23 Mar 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905636067
- ISBN-13: 978-1905636068
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 14.2 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,100,343 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Utterly gripping - quite beautifully written and constructed...I can't praise it highly enough." Joanna Lumley
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When human beings don't talk about love things go wrong. If a mother had told her daughter, even once, that she loved her they might not have spent years without seeing each other. If a man had found the courage to tell a woman that he'd always loved her she might never have married a different 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 a rift with her own daughter years later. 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 first novel about what happens when people who love each other don't say so. It is also about the human need for stories and how stories can help make sense of the random nature of life. The novel is set in East Anglia, in London and at a storytelling festival in the grounds of a medieval castle in south Wales.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Speaking of Love is a first book, and please may it not be Angela Young's last. About a lot of things, including schizophrenia, love, loss, missing the point, it hits the spot on all of them. I was caught swiftly, and minded about more than one of the characters throughout. The stories are interwoven but stand alone, and each of the people lives and breathes in their own way, connected to each other, yet individual. Angela Young writes vivid description and includes unexpected but important detail that brings things alive. I loved it.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I really don't know where to start in order to do this book justice. I'll begin by saying that the opening lines had me hooked immediately . . . 'I have come home, after a long and difficult journey. I travelled alone and it was sometime before I realised that I had arrived'.
The tale we hear is about Iris who is a storyteller, her daughter Vivie, and Matthew, who was Vivie's childhood friend. All 3 take turns to tell their story, about how Iris has a mental breakdown and how her and Vivie become separated when Vivie was very young. The three stories end up linked together in a staggeringly beautiful finish that had me blubbing but at the same time filled me with joy. The book examines what it's like to live with someone who is suffering from a mental illness and the effects it has on everyone involved. The author makes us realise how important it is to tell each other what we are thinking and to not hide our feelings away from those we care about. I loved the symbolism of the tree all the way through this book and of how deep the story roots go. Also, I thought it was very clever to link the 3 main characters' chapters with fairy tales that are delightfully told.
Angela Young is definitely an author to look out for. More please, Angela!
The tale we hear is about Iris who is a storyteller, her daughter Vivie, and Matthew, who was Vivie's childhood friend. All 3 take turns to tell their story, about how Iris has a mental breakdown and how her and Vivie become separated when Vivie was very young. The three stories end up linked together in a staggeringly beautiful finish that had me blubbing but at the same time filled me with joy. The book examines what it's like to live with someone who is suffering from a mental illness and the effects it has on everyone involved. The author makes us realise how important it is to tell each other what we are thinking and to not hide our feelings away from those we care about. I loved the symbolism of the tree all the way through this book and of how deep the story roots go. Also, I thought it was very clever to link the 3 main characters' chapters with fairy tales that are delightfully told.
Angela Young is definitely an author to look out for. More please, Angela!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a wonderful novel, beautifully written and characterised, it is engaging, lyrical, gentle, compassionate, wise - and, most important of all, a fantastically good read! I couldn't recommend it highly enough.
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Speaking of Love
Angela Young's novel has similarities with a couple of other modern novels I've mentioned on here - Maggie O'Farrell's The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, and Margaret Pelling's Work... Read more
Published on 1 Feb 2008 by Simon Thomas
Heart warming and moving.
Such a lovely presented book as the hardback - it has a delightful book mark attached and I really liked the picture on the front. Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2008 by SJSmith
A memorable novel
I haven't enjoyed a novel so much for a long time. It is beautifully written and the characters are believable and capture you from the first page. Read more
Published on 4 April 2007 by Kay
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