Exhaustively wonderful. An unflinching, romantic, and generous climax by a bright star in our literary constellation. The gayest book ever written

Henry Hoke, author of Open Throat

Melancholy, erratic, wise and often ravishingly beautiful, this is just what you want from a book about sex. It's as messy, risky and emotional as the act itself – an old-age testament that bears witness not just to Ed's legendary frankness, but also to his life-long commitment to finding new ways of writing who we might be, have been and are

Neil Bartlett, author of Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall

Ecstatic, so funny, tender, very hot - a scintillating romp with a literary lion. Daddy's diary fully delivers, pungent and real, teeming with gasp-worthy disclosures, as illuminating as it is filthy.

Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar

One of the patron saints of queer literature, a new book from Edmund White is always a cause for celebration. The Loves of My Life feels like the culmination of a profound wisdom - wry, hilarious, moving, and brilliantly unreserved. This litany of lovers becomes a sort of community in itself, full of vitality and difference. White is still breaking taboos in the most joyous and virtuoso style

Seán Hewitt, author of All Down Darkness Wide

A journey through the uplit plains of lust, desire, sex, and belonging – utter perfection … a powerful reminder to take nothing for granted not even shared orgasm or the end of oppression

Michael Cashman, author of One of Them

Edmund White's The Loves of My Life is a raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony, brimming with transgressive wisdom. White asks all the right questions, forcing me to expand much of what I imagined about desire and longing.

Robert Jones, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The Prophets