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Hourglass: A 'beautiful, funny, profound' (New Statesman) debut novel about love and loss
Keiran Goddard
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Adored by fans from Max Porter to Lena Dunham to Brett Anderson, a short, exquisite novel about love, loss and making sense of the world - as heartbreakingly moving as it is outrageous and funny
A short, exquisite novel about love, loss and making sense of the world - as heartbreakingly moving as it is outrageous and funny
'A universal love story' Guardian
'Beautiful, funny, profound ... read it in one glowing session' New Statesman
'A book for anyone who ever has been or ever will be heartbroken. So that's everyone.' Hollie McNish
Love builds up little by little and that's why it makes people reach for words like root and sediment and other words to do with rocks and trees. But what about the dismantling? Does it happen that way too? Because it feels like it is happening much, much faster. And I am reaching for words like landslide and like wave and like storm ...
Exquisitely crafted, wildly imaginative and as darkly funny as it is moving, Hourglass is a revolutionary love story. It turns time upside down, combs the intimate wreckage of heartbreak for something universal, and asks what it means to lose what you love.
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Praise for Hourglass: A 'beautiful, funny, profound' (New Statesman) debut novel about love and loss
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A universal love story - Guardian
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A book for anyone who ever has been or ever will be heartbroken. So that's everyone.
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Beautiful, funny, profound ... Read it in one glowing session - New Statesman
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An arresting, exquisitely told love story ... if ever a book could be read as a pilgrimage to discover what the heart finds sacred, this is it. - Irish Times
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Hourglass burnishes its ideas of love and agony with an almost mystical attention to feeling. This book glows in the heart of the reader
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This book is such a sneaky head f*ck - an epic poem in an ancient style about the brutalities of modern love, a masculine interrogation of feminine heartbreak, a really beautiful way to spend an evening
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Evocative, ecstatic, and saturated with off-kilter wit, Hourglass renders heartbreak as both vividly, luminously particular, and intensely, intimately familiar. There are lines from this remarkable book etched all over my memory, indelible
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Hourglass will stay with me for a long time. Hypnotic.
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