Textured and variegated … A writer's memoir and a rumination on craft … White is so clearly in complete control of his powers, switching between coquetry and high seriousness, weaving a rich tapestry of cultural references (Jean Genet to Hello Kitty, Stendhal to Sontag) while carefully deploying his unique ability, as Alan Hollinghurst put it, to “translate libido into style” through metaphor … The book's push against prudishness also contains a subtle call for understanding and compassion – reminders that what has been gained in terms of LGBTQ rights is fragile, and a conviction that a better, bolder future is possible. Anyone can make such an optimistic vision sound appealing; only Edmund White could make it truly seductive

Ralf Webb, Guardian

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

Intelligent, stylish, entertaining and funny

TLS

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

The itch of lust, in most of these encounters, soon turns into swooning poetic ardour . . . the writing in The Loves of My Life is as juicy, ebullient and ecstatic as in his best novels

Observer