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Louise Doughty - Whatever You Love
Released: 03/06/2010
Faber and Faber
In her latest novel, Doughty explores the extremities of human grief. Time dissolves as Laura, ridden with a raw and violent passion for revenge after her nine-year-old daughter is killed in a car accident, revisits her past and battles the horrors of maternal loss. An exceptional, if emotionally draining, read.
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The Telegraph“It was not a book I could exactly 'enjoy’...” Doughty is masterful at combining the texture of ordinary, smugly middle-class, contemporary life with the hidden cliff edges of violence and hatred. In this case, however, when the drama heightens and she drags us to the very edge, she loses...
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The Independent“A powerful portrait of loss...” Doughty excels at conveying the harrowing grief of Laura's bereavement and her slow emergence into a world entirely changed by the death of her daughter, and skilfully handles a tense and complex plot...
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Financial Times“A gripping investigation of love, loss and revenge...” Doughty’s precise, spare style and skilled plotting is perfectly suited to the exploration of a practical and pragmatic woman plunged into terrible grief. The plot moves faultlessly between past and present as we read about what has gone before...
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Guardian“At once gripping and tender...” The emotional power of Doughty's prose is such that the reader is complicit in Laura's journey from loss to retribution. Doughty forces us to confront the darkness that lies beneath the skin. The result is a brilliant and brutal novel...
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