People in Love

PEOPLE IN LOVE is magnificent. Claire Daverley is uniquely alert to the texture of a life, both internal and external, and renders it in such detail that one has the pleasure of fully inhabiting her characters. Not only their days—their living rooms and kitchens—but also their families, their memories, and their hearts. Daverley writes with wisdom, kindness, and humour about the glory and pain of love in all its forms. I am particularly admiring of the depth and complexity of her characters and of the beauty she finds in their humanity.

EMMA KNIGHT, author of THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE COMMON OCTOPUS

People in Love is pure heartache, pure poetry, pure, brilliant moonbeam Claire Daverley. The revelations in this novel glow like opals: fiery, clear, milky, the way life is. I couldn't wait to see what would happen, even though I never wanted it to end.

CATHERINE NEWMAN, NYT bestselling author of SANDWICH

No one writes love like Claire Daverley. Yearning drips from her books like honey but her stories, although always achingly romantic, are anything but predictable.

LAURA PASHBY

Daverley is tender and compelling. People in Love is a wistful love story that grapples with the conflict between reality and idealism.

ALICE WINN, author of IN MEMORIAM

Claire Daverley - queen of tugging at heart strings - has done it again with People In Love. A story full of warmth and tenderness that examines what form true adult love takes and reaches a refreshing conclusion.

ROXY DUNN, author of As Young as This

Yet more beautiful, lyrical, sledgehammer-to-the-heart writing. PEOPLE IN LOVE is a tender and nuanced novel that you will steal away hours to read, called back by its cast of gloriously warm and flawed characters, and the ramifications of how they try to love one another.

LOTTIE HAZELL, author OF PIGLET

Claire Daverley has Maggie O’Farrell’s ability to render human beings, their relationships and their flaws so vividly that you want to reach out and comfort them. A really beautiful book, brimming over with heart and heartbreak and everything in between. Have tissues to hand.

BOBBY PALMER

I ADORED this novel. A grown-up love story that delves into matters of the human heart with such nuance and insight. Claire's prose is so finely woven that every beautifully honed sentence immerses you fully into the emotional dilemmas of her characters. I stayed up until the early hours reading it. It deserves to be a huge hit’

HANNAH BECKERMAN

Tender, wise, deeply satisfying and so beautifully written - I adored this gorgeous, grown up love story.

DAISY BUCHANAN