Hourglass: A 'beautiful, funny, profound' (New Statesman) debut novel about love and loss
Keiran Goddard
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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 - GuardianA book for anyone who ever has been or ever will be heartbroken. So that's everyone.Beautiful, funny, profound ... Read it in one glowing session - New StatesmanAn 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 TimesHourglass burnishes its ideas of love and agony with an almost mystical attention to feeling. This book glows in the heart of the readerThis 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 eveningEvocative, 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, indelibleHourglass will stay with me for a long time. Hypnotic.
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