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I Love You Too Much

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08 February 2018
240 pages
9781509848959
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Funny, waspish, astute, l Love You Too Much is a heart breaking tale.
There’s an elegance to Drake’s writing that marks her out as a writer to be reckoned with and she shows fearlessness as she explores the mind of that most troublesome of creatures, the teenage boy . . . I Love You Too Much is a considerable achievement.
There is the most extraordinary sensibility in this book. It is the author's but she gives it to the reader as thirteen year old Paul's out of kilter, isolated, yearning perception. Denied love, this vulnerable boy floats, adrift, through Paris like a lost, living ghost. We see - and feel - through his eyes, and the experience is unsettling, unnerving, strangely delicious. Alicia Drake has achieved something very rare.
The enfant naturel of Henry James’s What Maisie Knew and Deborah Levy’s Swimming Home