Author:Susy McPhee
There are some people you'd do anything for...
For Fran that list would include her husband, Max, her daughter, and her best friend, Alison. Only Alison is now desperately ill and she needs Fran's help. She wants to find her husband a new wife, and leave her young daughter with a new mother. Fran finds the whole idea deeply uncomfortable, but it's hard to refuse your closest friend at the best of times, let alone ignore her dying wishes.
So Fran reluctantly logs on to an internet dating site, where she stumbles across a startlingly familiar profile. 'Footloose' describes himself as divorced, but his photo looks exactly like Fran's husband, Max. What's a wife to do when she suspects her husband's cheating and can't bear to confront him outright? Posing as 'Sassy', Fran sends a reply to 'Footloose' and sets out to date her own husband... But this increasingly crazy plan leads Max to start to have doubts of his own.
Torn between suspicion and love, life for Fran just got very complicated - can her marriage survive?
a touching and heart warming story and written with real insight and understanding...a very moving debut
—— Catherine AlliottA gritty debut. Just keep the tissues handy. *****
—— HEAT MagazineThis is well thought-out, well written, bittersweet stuff that will make you both weep and laugh. A lovely read from an exciting new author. I look forward to her next.
—— Sarah Broadhurst , Love ReadingGripping
—— News of the WorldA skilful, plot-twisting balance of humour and heartbreak.
—— Shari Low , Daily RecordAn impressively sustained, and unusually intense, literary experiment
—— Literary ReviewHe is a master of the comedy of social awkwardness... Jacobson is playing a sophisticated literary game, in this most literate of novels
—— EsquireMesmerising...also as delightfully funny a novel as one would expect from Jacobson, who revels in language and in the perverse spell it can cast... The Act of Love is spellbinding, not just in its characterisation, or in its simplicity of plot, in the flirtatiousness with which Jacobson courts language, or the stylish sardonic humour that seems to come so easily, but in its entirety
—— ScotsmanThe Act of Love, like Jacobson's other work, contains a rich vein of humour...Intelligent and erudite, Felix is a fascinating character
—— Financial TimesJacobson's page-turning account of sexual obsession is replete with erudite flourishes and sophisticated insight
—— IndependentOne of the author's most affecting, honest and brilliant works. It is a searingly well written piece by a ridiculously underrated novelist
—— Sunday TelegraphEntertaining... Jacobson's prose is incisive and off-kilter, abrasive and often hilarious
—— The TimesFelix Quinn, the narrator of the book...explains it beautifully - and this is a very good novel... Feeling unsafe makes him feel alive. And loss, of course, is the wellspring of good storytelling
—— Evening StandardThe Act of Love is an ambitious and at times extremely uncomfortable novel
—— The TelegraphIt is an almost frighteningly brilliant achievement. Why did the Booker judges not recognise it?
—— The GuardianThis is a very good novel
—— ScotsmanJacobson's 10th novel is a moving, thought-provoking and darkly witty story of desire and love
—— Irish TimesTrollope explores, with infinite delicacy, the strands that make a family
—— Daily ExpressAn absorbing contemporary novel from one of our most perceptive writers
—— You MagazineTrollope has created a fount of bitchy tension which she manipulates with great skill
—— Evening Standard
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