Author:Julie Myerson
A freezing room in a student house, a sagging mattress on the floor, and two people, one nineteen, the other twenty, kissing passionately. All night.
It is to this scene that, twenty years later, Rosy, the narrator of Julie Myerson's astonishing new novel, returns obsessively. She has just lost a child in a terrible, careless accident, and Tom, her partner, has taken her to Paris to forget about things, to start again.
It has snowed in the night and, waking at dawn, Rosy decides to go for a walk. At the hotel desk there's a note for her: 'I'm waiting for you X.' And he is, sitting in the corner of a café she enters almost at random. They talk. He touches her. She turns away and when she looks again he is gone.
Was he there? Had she dreamed him? And why, when he emails her out of the blue two days later, does he write as though they haven't met for twenty years?
Grief isn't normally the stuff of page-turners but Myerson, in stark, simple prose - seemingly effortless, though I suspect far from it - has constructed a compelling thriller out of it... A terrific read
—— John Harding , Daily MailAchingly brilliant...a haunting and compelling tale of memory, grief and obsession
—— Sunday ExpressA powerful, moving study of sadness and the uncanny
—— Ludovic Hunter-Tilney , Financial TimesWill haunt you to the last page
—— ScotsmanThis is an extraordinary, peculiar, mesmerising novel - the collected wail of middle-aged female anguish is brilliantly articulated. Myerson is one the select few who can write convincingly about a passionate love affair, with all its exquisite pains and barbed pleasures
—— New StatesmanSweet, charming and tender
—— Lionel Shriver , GuardianJulie Myerson's novels are perfectly suited to long, drifting afternoons spent in empty houses with only the odd, atmospheric creak of pipe or groan of plank for company
—— Helen Brown , Daily TelegraphAn emotionally resonant study of the tricks, torments and consolations of memory, Myerson's novel poignantly surveys the bottomless well that grief leaves in people's lives
—— Trevor Lewis , The TimesThe Story of You... is an effective study of the power that people have of conjuring up what they need when they need it, and the havoc it causes to the people around them
—— Time OutHeartbreaking and obsessively good... A moving story
—— Big IssueDeeply sad and lyrical
—— Good Housekeeping'In The Door the Hungarian Magda Szabó cleverly guides her intense and poignant novel, allowing the tension to rise in a crescendo'
—— Madame FigaroCaptures the obsessive and destructive madness of sexual jealousy
—— PsychologiesRoberts deploys her research carefully, honing a novel with a strong period feel and a sprightly structure
—— IndependentAn amazing read
—— Latest 7Roberts’ sharp, evocative prose renders this simple story complex, enthralling and compelling
—— Anne Hill , Sussex LifeThis spiky portrait of love makes for a gripping read
—— Emma Hagestadt , Independent RadarA heartbreaking examination of lives and love
—— Diva MagazineA powerful story of sexual jealousy and longing, My Policeman is also a heartbreaking examination of lives and love that has gone to waste in an era in which homosexuality was a prosecutable offence
—— DIVA MagazineA delicious novel by an experienced author who captures the scientific atmosphere of the early 19th century with a devastating study of infidelity
—— Colin Gardiner , Oxford TimesThe real life players of the Napoleonic era spring to life
—— iCompelling
—— Big IssueHighly assured and almost educational with its broad sweep of history
—— Jane Housham , GuardianTillyard’s achievement is in this original portray log the Regency era and its relevance to our own time
—— Philippa Williams , The Ladya very human tale about passion, secrets and lies.
—— Reading MattersAn achingly brilliant piece of writing on passion and delusion. It's a pleasure to read from start to finish and reignites our love for fiction
—— Independent
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