'Kit de Waal's best work yet'
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READER REVIEW
'Poignant and uplifting'​
‘I defy you not to cry while reading this’
Red Magazine
READER REVIEW
'A profoundly compassionate
novel of devastating power'
Bernardine Evaristo
'A wonderful novel,
bursting with life'
Cathy Rentzenbrink
'So deeply moving: sad
and beautiful and true'
Annie Macmanus
'Kit de Waal takes an ordinary
life and renders it extraordinary'
Monica Ali
'Kit de Waal has an uncanny ability to create vivid characters with such empathy that I want to reach into the pages to hug them. I truly loved this book'
Liz Nugent
'Beautiful. De Waal has the power to astound, to lift and console, to make life with her sentences'
READER REVIEW
'A reminder that there are more interesting loves than the ones usually celebrated in novels'
Clare Chambers
'Paulette is a superbly drawn character, as are those that orbit her world'
READER REVIEW
'A beautiful and important story about kindness that will break your heart, then make it sing'
Donal Ryan
'A story that is at times gentle, surprising and full of forgiveness and redemption'
READER REVIEW
'Devastating and uplifting'
Grazia
‘A beautiful novel about kindness
and found family’
Good Housekeeping
‘Full of warmth, this is a joyous story of love and what family means to each of us’
Prima Magazine
‘The author of My Name is Leon knows how to tug at the heartstrings’.
The I Paper
‘There’s emotional magic in this latest novel from the ever-compassionate de Waal’
The Daily Mail
Writing Courses and Masterclasses
& MORE
with Dean O'Loughlin. For Headline Books
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Penguin Podcast, Kit de Waal with Katy Brand (32 min)
Literary Salon with Damian Barr RUN TIME: 00:44:00 min)
How to Fail with Elizabeth Day RUN TIME: 00:58:00
The Times Literary Supplement Twenty Questions
The Aesthetic Memoir with Lily Dunn
The Class Work Project with Shan Stephens
READS
The New Statesman
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Article: My Irish grandmother...
The Irish Times
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Books Ireland Magazine
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A short story resistance
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