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" A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past It's London, 1960, and Aoife Kelly once the sparkling object of young men's affections runs pubs with her brusque, barking husband, Cash. Their courtship began in wartime London, before they returned to Ireland with their daughters in tow. One of these daughters fiery, independent-minded Rosaleen moves back to London, where she meets and begins an affair with the famous sculptor Felix Lehmann, a German-Jewish refugee artist over twice her tender eighteen years. When Rosaleen finds herself pregnant with Felix's child, she is evicted from her flat, dismissed from her job, and desperate to hide the secret from her family. Where, and to whom, can she turn? Meanwhile, Kate, another generation down, lives in present-day London with her young daughter and husband, an unsuccessful musician and destructive alcoholic. Adopted and floundering to find a sense of herself in the midst of her unhappy marriage, Kate sets out to track down her birth mother, a search that leads her to a Magdalene Laundry in Ireland and the harrowing history that it holds. Stirring and nostalgic at moments, visceral and propulsive at others, I Couldn't Love You More is a tender, candid portrait of love, sex, motherhood, and the enduring ties of family. It is impossible not to fall under the spell of this tale of mothers and daughters, wives and muses, secrets and outright lies. "
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Biographisches: " Esther Freud is the great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud and the daughter of the painter Lucian Freud. She trained as an actress before writing her first novel. Her books have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in London. " Rezension(2): "Richard Curtis, screenwriter of Yesterday and Love Actually:This is such a powerful book—" Rezension(3): "Publishers Weekly (starred review) :Beautiful and insightful...As Freud delves into the three women's lives, the reader is taken on a journey of heartbreak as desperate actions taken to protect loved ones are revealed. This eloquent exploration of the ineffable ties between mothers and daughters delivers the goods." Rezension(4): "Kirkus Reviews:Braiding the lives of mothers and daughters in England and Ireland across three generations, Freud explores the joys, heartbreaks, and aching enigmas of family bonds...Freud's gifts for female empathy and fluid storytelling are fully evident in her ninth...the author's insight is apparent, both in her character studies and expression, as the ambiguity of the book's title demonstrates...A vivid, reliable saga of female experience." Rezension(5): "Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry " Rezension(6): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: February 1, 2021 Opening in 1960s London, this latest from Granta Best of Young British Novelists Freud ( Hideous Kinky ) takes us from put-upon publican's wife Aoife and Aoife's pregnant teenage daughter Rosaleen to unhappily married Kate, who years later traces the mother she never knew to a Magdalene Laundry in Ireland. With a 50,000-copy printing. Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(7): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from May 17, 2021 Freud’s beautiful and insightful latest (after Mr. Mac and Me ) focuses on three generations of distinct and well-drawn women. In 1939, Aiofe Kelly marries the dashing Cashel. They run a London pub and send their daughters to a Catholic boarding school in the Irish countryside during the war. Rosaleen, their feisty daughter, hopes to be a journalist, but her dreams are put on hold in 1959 when an opportunity at the Daily Express turns out to be a lowly mail-sorting job. She omits mention of her diminished circumstances in letters to her parents and falls in love with a Jewish sculptor, Felix Lichtman, many years her senior, and becomes pregnant, only to learn he already has a wife and child. Next, the reader meets Kate, who, in 1991, is married to a hapless musician with a drinking problem. Kate adores their daughter, Freya, and is an artist in her own right. Kate, who was adopted, frequently imagines seeing her birth mother, whom she learned about at age 10. As Freud delves into the three women’s lives, the reader is taken on a journey of heartbreak as desperate actions taken to protect loved ones are revealed. This eloquent exploration of the ineffable ties between mothers and daughters delivers the goods. Agent: Anna Stein, ICM Partners. " Rezension(8): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: May 15, 2021 Braiding the lives of mothers and daughters in England and Ireland across three generations, Freud explores the joys, heartbreaks, and aching enigmas of family bonds. Freud's gifts for female empathy and fluid storytelling are fully evident in her ninth novel, which follows the Kelly family from pre-World War II years to more modern times. The lineage begins with Aoife, whose plans for a more ambitious life than her mother's are reshaped by her love for Cashel Kelly, a man with Ireland in his blood (read traditionalism and sternly fixed opinions). After the war, Cashel and Aoife give up their London pub and move back to Ireland with their three daughters to farm. But their rebellious oldest, Rosaleen, craves freedom and soon returns to London, claiming a career at a national newspaper though her job is in the mailroom. Still in her teens, Rosaleen has already met Felix--older, richer, a sculptor, the man who couldn't love her more but who will turn away at the crucial moment. Freud's menfolk often prove flawed, including Matt, the unreliable, alcoholic partner of another woman, Kate, whose life of art teaching and care for her daughter, Freya, become increasingly driven by the search for her birth mother. The bones of Freud's story emerge predictably, taking in scenes at the pitiless Convent of the Sacred Heart in Cork, a home for unwed pregnant girls, where Rosaleen suffers the tirelessly punitive attentions of the nuns. Viewers of the movies Philomena and The Magdalene Sisters will feel on horribly familiar territory here while the later developments of the narrative for all three women offer more emotional intensity than surprises. Yet the author's insight is apparent, both in her character studies and expression, as the ambiguity of the book's title demonstrates. A vivid, reliable saga of female experience. COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(9): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: June 1, 2021 In this novel spanning five decades of the twentieth century in London and Ireland, Freud (Mr. Mac and Me, 2015) tells the stories of three Irish women struggling with loss: Aoife Kelly,her daughter, Rosaleen,and Kate Hayes, Rosaleen's child, born out of wedlock and promptly adopted. What has become of Rosaleen, once the smartest girl in County Cork, a rebellious, black-haired beauty, is the mystery that shadows Aoife's life and creates a hole in Kate's. Not yet 20, Rosaleen crosses the Irish Sea to pursue her dream of becoming a London newspaper writer. She falls in love with an older, devastatingly charming, but damaged sculptor. It's 1960, so only Rosaleen pays the harrowing price for surrendering to the powerful fizz of love and sex, taking her pregnant self to the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a notorious Magdalene laundry. Freud follows the three women for another 30 years, subtly and often viscerally capturing the complex human emotions that course below the surface of a society where attitudes about sex, sin, secrets, silence, and shame spread damage and loss to all. With poignant symbolism and heartbreaking empathy, Freud lays bare the fraught relationships between men and women, parents and children, and the holy bond between mother and child. COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "
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