The Love Verb - Softcover

Green, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141038640 ISBN 13: 9780141038643

Publisher: Penguin, 2011

Synopsis

Number one best-seller Jane Green - author of The Beach House and Spellbound - explores changes in relationships when a family member is struck with illness in her heartbreaking novel The Love Verb.

Love means being there - through everything.

Everyone in Callie's family is busy; her sister is a free-spirited Manhattan chef, her best friend Lila is coping with the vitriol of her new man's ex-wife, and her parents, Walter and Honor, have rich though separate lives. But when Callie discovers the breast cancer she thought she'd beaten has returned, they all find that their lives shift to focus on caring for Callie.

'A beautifully written and intensely sad lesson in what it really means to love someone you know you're going to lose' Daily Telegraph
'Stylish, wickedly insightful . . . family, friends and love is truly, heartwrenchingly tested' Mirror

'A moving account of a family faced with a heartbreaking situation. I defy anyone to get through to the end without crying' Sunday Express

Jane Green's internationally best-selling novels, including The Other Woman, Jemima J., Babyville, The Patchwork Marriage (published as Another Piece of My Heart in the USA) Girl Friday (Dune Road), Life Swap (Swapping Lives), Second Chance, Straight Talking, Mr. Maybe, and Bookends, are moving and true to life. The Love Verb is published as Promises to Keep in the USA.

About this title

Product Description:

When photographer Callie has life-changing news, she - and her whole family - learn that love is not just about word. It is about deeds. After all, love means being there, through everything.

Review:

A beautifully written and intensely sad lesson in what it really means to love someone you know you're going to lose (Daily Telegraph)

Genuinely moving, heartbreaking (Glamour)

A moving account of a family faced with a heartbreaking situation. I defy anyone to get through to the end without crying (Sunday Express)

A tear-jerking read (Marie Claire)

Stylish, wickedly insightful . . . family, friends and love is truly, heartwrenchingly tested (Mirror)

Green conveys the anguish and love surrounding a tragically early death (Woman & Home)

A powerful and emotional tale about family, friendship and enduring love (Irish News)

A powerful and emotional tale (Sun)

Heartfelt (Metro)

A good old-fashioned weepie (Saga)

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0141038640
• ISBN 13: 9780141038643
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416