Paddy Crewe

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Shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize

My Name is Yip

True Love

Paddy Crewe writes with a lyrical, lonely prose that&rsquo;s full of the kind of tenderness which both frightens and saves us

Empathetic, honest, compelling. I&rsquo;ll read anything Paddy Crewe writes.

Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry

True Love had me from its gorgeous, lyrical opening to its transcendent final pages. Paddy Crewe is an exceptionally gifted writer.

Such a gorgeous, tender novel, filled with profound wisdom about the chaos that lies within us and between us. Beautiful and life-affirming, it just grabbed my heart. The ending is just perfect.

Donal Ryan, author of The Queen of Dirt Island

True Love is a wonderful novel. Brilliant storytelling and exhilarating prose from Paddy Crewe had me entranced and rooting for Keely and Finn from the start. The depictions of loneliness, voicelessness and grappling with language to find connection are spot on. There are themes of painful abandonment, grief, refuge in reading and, of course, redemption through true love. A deeply moving love story that combines elements of fairy tale and gritty realism to offer a compelling exploration of young love.

Priscilla Morris, author of Black Butterflies

No doubt about it, Paddy Crewe is the real thing. Such skilful handling of love&rsquo;s warring tides and such emotional depth. And prose of real visceral presence bringing to light that most delicate instrument, the human heart.

Paddy Crewe&rsquo;s True Love is a piercing look at the fissure love opens in us, revealing both our deepest joys and our deepest pains.

Ingrid Persaud, author of Love After Love

Paddy Crewe brings out the longing, the fire, and the strange melancholy of love in the tale of Keely and Finn where love is ripped away, rebuilt, and found again. A love story in the truest sense told with stinging insight and moments of quiet beauty.

Scott Preston, author of The Borrowed Hills

A gorgeous, compulsive, lionhearted book which I was caught up by and rolled along with over the course of a single breathless weekend. Beautiful and clever.

A raw and beautiful novel. Paddy Crewe writes about people and places seldom seen in literary fiction, and creates an astonishing portrait of love on the margins. Lives like these are rarely handled with such tenderness and precision.

Tom Newlands, author of Only Here, Only Now

Crewe is an author of huge imaginative range.

Paddy Crewe was born in Middlesbrough and studied at Goldsmiths. His debut novel, My Name Is Yip, has been shortlisted for the Betty Trask, the Wilbur Smith, a South Bank Sky Arts Award and The Authors&rsquo; Club Best First Novel Award, and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize.

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