Almost Love: the addictive story of obsessive love from the bestselling author of Asking for It - Hardcover

O'Neill, Louise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784298867 ISBN 13: 9781784298869

Publisher: riverrun, 2018

Synopsis

For fans of Marian Keyes, Dolly Alderton and Holly Bourne, ALMOST LOVE is one of the most addictive and heartbreaking reads of the year

'Compulsive' Sunday Times

'Breaks another boundary' Irish Times

'A must-read' Image

'Honest and poignant' Elle

'Intelligent and compelling' Daily Mail

When Sarah falls for Matthew, she falls hard.

So it doesn't matter that he's twenty years older. That he sees her only in secret. That, slowly but surely, she's sacrificing everything else in her life to be with him.

Sarah's friends are worried. Her father can't understand how she could allow herself to be used like this. And she's on the verge of losing her job.

But Sarah can't help it. She is addicted to being desired by Matthew.

And love is supposed to hurt.

Isn't it?

About this title

Product Description

hardback book

Review

Review

‘Powerful and intense. O’Neill is one of our most uncompromising authors.’
John Boyne
‘A real, raw story of how a woman's yearning for a potent relationship can poison happiness but help her discover the shadowy parts of herself. Louise O’Neill will once again connect to the secret, intimate places of readers’ minds and lives.’
Cecelia Ahern

‘In Almost Love, the author unpicks, with a pen sharp as needles, the kind of obsessive love to which nobody is immune: I would challenge any reader to turn the final page without having flushed, at least once, in recognition. Yet her gaze is unflinching, but never cruel; we are invited to examine, but never judge. O'Neill is a vital and necessary presence in contemporary literature, and we are lucky to have her.’

Sarah Perry

‘A bold, uncompromising depiction of obsession and obsessive love. Reinvents the template for the female protagonist. Modern, uncomfortable, ultimately moving.’

Marian Keyes

‘Superb pockets of relatable truths . . . one of Ireland’s most astute social observers’

Irish Independent

‘Breaks another boundary that women’s fiction rarely approaches’

Irish Times

‘Intelligent, compelling, with considerable psychological depth’ Daily Mail

‘Honest and poignant, Almost Love tells a story of love, of obsession and of reckoning with the common saying that “if it doesn’t hurt, it’s not love”’

Elle

‘A story that strikes an uncomfortable chord but also acts as an urgent call to arms’ Emerald Street

‘O’Neill is a perceptive, empathetic writer, her astute exploration of a toxic relationship laced with a primal scream of fury at the role and status of women in society’

Express.co.uk

‘A brave and uncompromising exploration of love in all its guises, this book redefines the very concept of so-called “romantic fiction” – it’s a story we will genuinely never forget’

Heat

‘A perfect book-club read’ Prima

‘A sobering look at a dysfunctional relationship that will be painfully recognisable for a lot of women’ Red

‘It’s hard to resist the compulsive, car-crash appeal of this raw story’ Sunday Mirror

‘[O’Neill] has a compulsive, pared-down style and you can wolf this down in a single sitting but its effect will linger’ Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: riverrun
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1784298867
• ISBN 13: 9781784298869
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320