Love Falls

Love Falls

by Esther Freud
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 03/10/2011

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A mesmerising coming-of-age tale set in sun-drenched Tuscany, from the author of Hideous Kinky and I Couldn't Love You More


'A vividly rendered portrait of a young girl's journey towards self discovery and maturity' Daily Mail

'Love Falls captures the delicious uncertainty and electrifying beginnings of first love' Glamour


It is July, three months after Lara's seventeenth birthday, and a week before Charles and Diana's Royal Wedding.


When Lara's father, a man she barely knows, invites her to accompany him on holiday, she finds herself far away from the fumes of London's Holloway Road in the sun-scorched hillsides of Tuscany. There she meets the Willoughby family, rife with illicit alliances and vendettas.


The more embroiled Lara becomes with them, and with the carelessly beautiful Kip, the more consumed she is with doubt, curiosity and dread. And so begins her intoxicating, troubled journey into self discovery and across the very fine line between childhood and what lies beyond ...

ISBN:
9781408827123
9781408827123
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
03-10-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Esther Freud

Esther Freud trained as an actress before writing her first novel, Hideous Kinky, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys prize and made into a film starring Kate Winslet. After publishing her second novel, Peerless Flats, she was chosen as one of Granta's Best Young British novelists. Her other books include The Sea House, Lucky Break, and Mr Mac and Me, which won Best Novel in the East Anglian Book Awards.

She contributes regularly to newspapers and magazines, and teaches creative writing with her own local group. Her first full length play Stitchers was produced at the Jermyn St Theatre in 2018, and in 2019 she was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. I Couldn't Love You More is her ninth novel. She lives in London.

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