- Title:
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I Love You Too Much
- Written by:
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Alicia Drake
- Read by:
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Tom Lawrence
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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6 hours 58 minutes
- Published:
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September 28 2018
- Available Date:
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September 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781529002973
- Genres:
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Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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A sharp, beautiful novel about the loneliness of childhood set in the most elegant district of Paris.
I knew I was in Paris, I knew that was the Seine beneath me, the sky above, but when I looked around for help, the grand apartment buildings of the Quai Voltaire stared back at me, indifferent.
In the sixth arrondissement everything is perfect and everyone is lonely. This is the Paris of thirteen-year-old Paul. Shy and unloved, he quietly observes the lives of the self-involved grown-ups around him: his glamorous maman Séverine, her young musician lover Gabriel and his fitness-obsessed papa Philippe. Always overlooked, it’s only a matter of time before Paul sees something that he’s not supposed to see ...
Seeking solace in his unlikely friendship with tear-away classmate Scarlett and the sweet confections from the elegant neighbourhood patisseries, Paul yearns for unconditional love. But what will he do if he can’t find it?
Alicia Drake evokes contemporary Parisian life with the subtlety of a latter-day Françoise Sagan, and she captures in Paul the pains of adolescence as poignantly as Salinger's Holden Caulfield. I Love You Too Much is a novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a devastating coming-of-age story told from the sidelines of Parisian perfection.
'Drake’s characters are richly drawn and she writes insightfully about teenage angst, the superficiality of wealth, compulsive consumption and familial neglect in a coming-of-age novel that’s replete with evocations of adolescent loneliness and insecurity.'
The Observer
'Drake nails the plight of a protagonist caught between childhood and the alarming onset of adulthood, but also elicits a pang of sympathy for Paul’s shambolic parents, bruised by their own upbringings ... the shine of a very enjoyable first novel.'
The Daily Mail