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The Characters of Love reviews
'Young love is probably the most difficult emotion to communicate
on paper without sounding saccharine or unconvincing. Boyt captures
its obsessive, bittersweet moods beautifully in this tale of Nell,
clutching at the memory of her idealised absentee father through
a destructive relationship woth an older man-yet the book is far
too fresh and vivid to be depressing.'
Options
'Poignnt and true...Susie Boyt writes effortlessly a clear, supple
prose.'
PUNCH
'Disciplined lucid and often very moving.'
Times
'An irrisistible mixture of irony and understanding.'
Literary review
'Susie Boyt writes cool, clear prose...She handles dialogue with
ease, faultlessly reproducing the self important, would be adult
way in which pubescent girls talk to eachother.'
TLS
'Boyt's poise and perceptiveness make this a memorable study
of obsessive love.'
Sunday Times
'Boyt captures the hopes and romantic dreams ofher young heroine
with unerring insgiht and sympathy. Her dialogue is superb: the
faltering, often monosyllabic exchanges of her cast of Oxford
undergraduates are authentic and revealing...her stories have
a wit and guilelessness...She is the most natural young writer
we have.'
Tatler
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