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Alice has just returned to London from months of travelling abroad. She is late to hear the news that her father is dying, and arrives at the family home only just in time to say goodbye. Daniel hasn't had a roof over his head for years, but to him the city of London feels like home in a way that no bricks and mortar ever did. He spends every day searching for his daughter; the daughter he has never met. Until now . . . Heart-wrenching and life-affirming, this is a unique story of love lost and found, of rootlessness and homecoming and the power of the ties that bind. It is a story for fathers and daughters everywhere.
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Review:
"Heartbreaking and hopeful, "Ten Things I've Learnt About Love" crisscrosses London in a layered search for fathers and daughters, family and home. For anyone who has ever wondered where they belong, or to whom they belong--the answer can be found within Sarah Butler's tender debut novel." --Vanessa Diffenbaugh, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Language of Flowers" "If this weren't billed as a debut novel, one would never know it. Sarah Butler writes with the deftness and delicacy of a master storyteller, giving us a compassionate, achingly beautiful rendering of a father and daughter." --Hillary Jordan, bestselling author of "Mudbound "and "When She Woke"
From the Back Cover:
'Enormously effective . . . There are many more than ten things to love'
New York Times Book Review
Alice is back in the family house that has never felt like home, waiting out the last few days of her father's life and yearning to escape. Across the city, a homeless man named Daniel searches for the daughter he has always loved but never met.
Connected by a secret, Alice and Daniel are about to cross paths in unexpected and life-changing ways . . .
'Heartbreaking and hopeful, Ten Things I've Learnt About Love criss-crosses London in a search for fathers and daughters, family and home. For anyone who has ever wondered where they belong, or to whom they belong, the answer can be found within Sarah Butler's tender debut novel'
Vanessa Diffenbaugh, author of The Language of Flowers
'Exquisitely written'
Metro
'Moving and satisfying'
Daily Mail
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1447231090
- ISBN 13 9781447231097
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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