Loved and Missed

I was in the story, feeling everything. I cared about every character . . . She writes beautifully. It was a total pleasure -- Philippa Perry, author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read
Always surprising - unexpected, particular, the thing you didn't know you wanted, but needed more than anything. A tender study of unrequited maternal love redeemed ultimately by the quiet glory of not giving up -- Tamsin Greig
She takes the study of love into uncharted territory and every sentence has its depths and pleasures -- Linda Grant
Her writing has a Keatsian belief in the holiness of the Heart's affections . . . a beautiful work of art, a page-turning narrative with wise and funny observations and dialogue . . . both heart-breaking and consoling -- Shena Mackay
I am so moved: it carries a huge emotional power . . . I ached for them all. Poignant, witty, lyrical and perceptive -- Joan Bakewell
A novel of profound courage and consideration; every page a kaleidoscope of thoughtful insight into human frailty and complexity . . . one of the greatest visceral studies of love I have ever experienced -- Lisa Dwan
This beautiful tale of love, courage and compassion...captures the pain of estrangement in penetrating, haunting language... Loved and Missed is a complex, deeply moving novel about frailty and suffering. Despite all the sadness, hope remains -- Martin Chilton * Independent *
It's an arresting premise for Susie Boyt's thoughtprovoking seventh novel...Boyt's novel is compelling - and invites our compassion for those who may not always earn it, but still deserve it. -- Marianka Swain * The Sunday Telegraph, Novel of the Week *
Boyt is both funny...and poignant...but never less than impeccably truthful, with a broad, oft breathtaking wisdom -- Emily Hourican * Irish Independent *
Loved and Missed deftly sidesteps the clichés that often plague stories involving drug abuse, and it conveys the complexities of loving someone who can't love you back with remarkable delicacy. -- Mia Levitin * Financial Times *
An acute, enormously moving study of familial love, and how the bonds between a mother and child can rupture, sometimes inexplicably. -- Fiona Sturges * i *
Boyt's novel is compelling-and invites our compassion for those who may not always earn it, but still deserve it -- Marianka Swain * Daily Telegraph *
To wrest exquisite prose and engaging narrative out of a tale of pain and sorrow is the achievement of a serious novelist who has blossomed into originality and who deserves a wide audience * Spectator *
Boyt's writing is perceptive and emotionally powerful * MSN *
I adored Susie Boyt's novel Loved And Missed, which explores what can happen when, out of the blue, addiction and dereliction arrive to wreck a family. And how goodwill, determination and encouragement can ultimately put things back together again. -- Rev Richard Coles * Daily Mail *
Regret and joy are an indivisible duo for any mother or father, and Boyt wisely mixes them into a beautifully humane chronicle. With this exquisite devotional of a novel, she has turned the ability to find contentment in the muck of parenthood into a courageous art form * Atlantic *