Both delicate and profound – about how relationships bind us together and pull us apart

Tracy Chevalier

A novel with the sharp tang of memory … I was swept up into this world of visceral intimacies, the fraught but powerful relationships between the main characters more than gripping enough to carry me along … It's the relationship between the sisters that lies at the heart of the novel, and Freud teases out its various pressure points with delicate, moving effect … This beguiling story of female experience and family ties is well worth the three-decade wait

Financial Times

Freud exposes the tensions of their sisterly bond – messy, mistake-strewn and quietly marvellous – with tender charm

Mail on Sunday

Freud is brilliant at capturing the time in a personal and a global sense … The details are so vivid you feel like you're remembering the events yourself … it demands and rewards close attention

The Times

Lucy's bruising but always engrossing passage from child to adulthood provides the arc here, and we're deeply with her at every moment ... Freud's alternately painful and funny story may cleave close to her fascinating life, but it begs larger questions, too, as Lucy's insight grows into the lasting legacy of her rootless bohemian upbringing

Daily Mail

A soulful, semi-autographical tale about finding your place in the world

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