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Aug 12, 2025 11:16 PM

Author:Henry Green

Loving

One of his most admired works, LOVING describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers the Tennants, the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumours about the war in Europe; invading one another's provinces of authority to create an anarchic environment of self-seeking behaviour, pilfering, gossip and love.

Reviews

Heartbreaking, funny and written with such luminous prose - he's the most brilliant, and neglected, of English writers

—— Helen Cross

Will leave you with pains in your cheeks from laughing

—— RTÉ Guide on The Oh My God Delusion

Side-achingly funny

—— Sunday Independent

Ross at his best: razor sharp, magnificently plotted and an utter joy to read

—— Irish Mail on Sunday on The Oh My God Delusion

While the writing is as sharp and LOL funny as ever, Ross's complicated relationships ... are movingly explored. The closing pages had this reviewer in tears - and, for once, they weren't of helpless laughter

—— Hot Press on The Oh My God Delusion

Imbued with heartbreak, grace and humour, this novel made me walk taller for days.

—— She

One True Thing is a book about the very nature of love... and insight into the workings of the heart is what Anna Quindlen is so good at

—— Tatler

Witty, profound... exhilarating

—— Margaret Forster

Fiercely compassionate and frank... conveys a world so out of kilter and so like ours that its readers are likely to feel both exhilarated and unnerved by its accuracy.

—— Elle U.S.

Provocative... we leave One True Thing stimulated and challenged, more thoughtful than when we began.

—— Los Angeles Times
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