Almost Love

Powerful and intense, O'Neill is one of our most uncompromising authors. - John Boyne

A real, raw story of how a woman's yearning for a potent relationship can poison happiness but help her discover the shadowy parts of herself. Louise O'Neill will once again connect to the secret, intimate places of readers' minds and lives - Cecelia Ahern

With a pen sharp as needles, the author unpicks the kind of obsessive love to which nobody is immune: I would challenge any reader to turn the final page without having flushed, at least once, in recognition. Her gaze is unflinching but never cruel; we are invited to examine, but never judge. O'Neill is a vital and necessary presence in contemporary literature, and we are lucky to have her. - Sarah Perry

A bold, uncompromising depiction of obsessive love. Reinvents the template for the female protagonist. - Marian Keyes

'Superb pockets of relatable truths . . . one of Ireland's most astute social observers' - Irish Independent

'Breaks another boundary that women's fiction rarely approaches' - Irish Times

Intelligent, compelling, with considerable psychological depth - Daily Mail

Honest and poignant, Almost Love tells a story oflove, of obsession and of reckoning with the common saying that 'if it doesn't hurt, it's not love - Elle