Ten Things I've Learnt About Love

Sarah Butler Press Reviews

'A very enjoyable read ... subtle and clever'
Clare Morrall, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Astonishing Splashes of Colour

'A hymn to London -- poetic and incantatory. The gripping, hopeful love story is deftly threaded through wonderfully detailed, sensuous prose'. -  Martina Evans

'Sarah Butler writes a very real London, linking paths through the city with a moving, eloquent story of love, loss and family' - Stella Duffy

'Heartbreaking and hopeful, Ten Things I've Learnt About Love criss-crosses London in a search for fathers and daughters, family and home. For anyone who has ever wondered where they belong, or to whom they belong, the answer can be found within Sarah Butler's tender debut novel' - Vanessa Diffenbaugh, author of The Language of Flowers

'Graceful and subtle... love, in all its shape-shifting complexity, is at the core of this novel; that and the consequences -- good and bad -- of keeping secrets... The shifting and intricate dynamics of family life, and the vertiginously painful feelings of loss induced by relationship breakdown and bereavement, are written with imaginative precision. This is a thought- as well as emotion-provoking novel... It also sparkles with hope.' - Independent on Sunday

'Increasingly suspenseful... a moving and satisfying debut' - John Harding, Daily Mail

'A warm-hearted, hopeful fable about trying to stay true to yourself: about losing parents, building bridges and seeing miracles in the dust on the pavement' - Maggie Gee