Praise for Maggie O’Farrell’s
My Lover’s Lover

Mail on Sunday ‘A gripping exploration of the ambivalence at the heart of intimate relationships… keenly observed, superbly imagined’

Barbara Trapido ‘Written so beautifully, with such startling, delicate and original images… a triumph’ Barbara Trapido

Literary Review ‘As soon as I’d finished My Lover’s Lover… I rushed to my local bookshop to acquire her first [novel] – that is the drug-like strength of O’Farrell’s storytelling’

Mavis Cheek, Daily Express ‘Absorbing, beautifully written… a sensual celebration of language… this book warns against the blindness of falling in love’

Independent on Sunday ‘O’Farrell is so good at exploring the most inscrutable aspects of relationships, and those who lure us into them, that it would be almost a crime for her to stop’

The Times ‘A mixture of metropolitan satire and ghost story… a stylish take on the supernatural’

She ‘Brilliantly evokes the raw pain of breaking up – and the pure relief of moving on’

Observer ‘What begins as a ghost story soon becomes scarily real. The book seems to be saying that nothing in our imagination can be quite as unsettling, or destabilising, as the potential chaos we invite into our lives every time we connect with another human being’

Glamour ‘Set once again in relationship territory, O’Farrell brings her emotionally acute writing into play with good effect… a novel full of spine-tingling intrigue’

Marie Claire ‘The intensity of O’Farrell’s prose style sucks you into this story of obsession… spookily sexy, and gripping from the start’

Financial Times ‘She is undeniably skilful, a good plotter and a confident stylist, and she is brave to write about love and sex with such passionate conviction’

Literary Review ‘A gripping and passionate double love story… supremely well done… It is a hard task to capture precisely the elusive, slippery nature of love but (O’Farrell) achieves this with writing of such simplicity and honesty that passion is left unobscured by unnecessary words’