Review
"Utterly gripping - quite beautifully written and constructed...I can't praise it highly enough." Joanna Lumley
Product Description
What happens to families and relationships when people find it impossible to say the words, ''I love you''?
When love is not spoken about, a hole is created into which memories, happiness, relationships, trust and eventually people fall into. Mothers fail daughters, who then find themselves failing their own mothers. Parents abandon children through fear; husbands desert wives.
However, this is not an heroic tale or a memoir of devastation, but an everyday tale of loss and recovery. It takes a special event, a mother's first public speaking event since her breakdown, for the years of silence to make way for reconciliation. Silence can be a deathly force but the power of a whisper acknowledging love and acceptance is far greater.
This novel shares the importance of literary expression and creativity for overcoming fears and doubts and should be instrumental to book groups.
''It's a novel suffused with a love of storytelling, and a warmth that makes it a pleasure to read.'' - The Daily Mail, 8th February 2008
When love is not spoken about, a hole is created into which memories, happiness, relationships, trust and eventually people fall into. Mothers fail daughters, who then find themselves failing their own mothers. Parents abandon children through fear; husbands desert wives.
However, this is not an heroic tale or a memoir of devastation, but an everyday tale of loss and recovery. It takes a special event, a mother's first public speaking event since her breakdown, for the years of silence to make way for reconciliation. Silence can be a deathly force but the power of a whisper acknowledging love and acceptance is far greater.
This novel shares the importance of literary expression and creativity for overcoming fears and doubts and should be instrumental to book groups.
''It's a novel suffused with a love of storytelling, and a warmth that makes it a pleasure to read.'' - The Daily Mail, 8th February 2008
From the Author
Angela Young was born in 1951. She has had short stories for children published in the American short story magazines, Cricket and Spider, and a story for adults is published in MsLexia. BBC Books published Young's 30,000-word ending to Edith Wharton's last, unfinished novel, The Buccaneers, and, in 2001, Young graduated from Middlesex university's MA in Creative Writing. Speaking of Love is Young's first novel and she is working on her second novel which will be a modern version of Beauty and the Beast.
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About the Author
Angela Young is a writer and editor who lives and works in London. She was commissioned by BBC Books to finish Edith Wharton's unfinished novel, The Buccaneers, which was was published in 1995. In 2002 she graduated from Middlesex university with an MA in Creative Writing and in May, 2003 was the first unpublished writer to be awarded a bursary by Arts Council England to begin researching and writing a novel.
