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My Sister and Other Lovers
A captivating coming-of-age novel about love, sisterhood and secrets
My Sister and Other Lovers
A captivating coming-of-age novel about love, sisterhood and secrets
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Description
'Gorgeous and sad and gripping and moving' Marian Keyes
'Brilliant … so vivid you feel like you're remembering the events yourself' The Times
'I am telling everyone about it ... A triumph' Rachel Joyce
'A subtle, clever, evocative book' Joanna Quinn, Guardian
'I'm stricken with love for this book' Meg Mason
'Exposes the sisterly bond – messy, mistake strewn and quietly marvellous – with tender charm' Mail on Sunday
'Frank, tender and unequivocal … I loved it' Miranda Cowley Heller
'Delicate and profound – about how relationships bind us together and pull us apart' Tracy Chevalier
'Spare, moving and beautifully written' Jojo Moyes
The quandary of the younger sister – what to do when it had already been done…
For as long as Lucy can remember, she's been caught between loyalty to her rootless, idealistic mother and devotion to her fierce and exacting sister, Bea. But as the sisters come of age and embark on their own experiments – in love, drugs, work, motherhood – they find their lives, and their relationships, increasingly in turmoil. Can their love for each other transcend the damages of the past?
Readers love My Sister and Other Lovers
'Gorgeously sad ... a beautiful and at times desperately painful voyage into maturity'
'A beautiful book ... There is so much yearning and wisdom within its pages'
'One of my very favorite writers ever - as soon as I finished this I thought I want to read it again'
Product details
| Published | 15 Dec 2026 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781526686572 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Both delicate and profound – about how relationships bind us together and pull us apart
Tracy Chevalier
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Freud's control is masterful
Irish Times
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A novel with the sharp tang of memory … I was swept up into this world of visceral intimacies, the fraught but powerful relationships between the main characters more than gripping enough to carry me along … It's the relationship between the sisters that lies at the heart of the novel, and Freud teases out its various pressure points with delicate, moving effect … This beguiling story of female experience and family ties is well worth the three-decade wait
Financial Times
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Freud exposes the tensions of their sisterly bond – messy, mistake-strewn and quietly marvellous – with tender charm
Mail on Sunday
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Fact and fiction intermingle, but this elegant novel is more than memoir
Irish Examiner
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In 1992 Esther Freud's semi-autobiographical debut novel Hideous Kinky made her a name in the books world ... It was charming, fast-paced - and soon made into a film. So a sequel was a risk, but one which has paid off .... It captures everything from crushes to painful heels to heroin addiction, all in intense vignettes. A highly impressive account
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