'Tender, vivid and achingly sad' GUARDIAN, BOOK OF THE YEAR
TWO SISTERS publishes on the 30th anniversary of Blake Morrison’s ground-breaking book And When Did You Last See Your Father? which forged the way for a new genre of confessional memoir.
‘A bitter-sweet pang in my heart’ Monique Roffey
‘A beautiful book. Insanely romantic and utterly convincing’ Julie Myerson
‘A wonderful and inventive novel, sorrowful and hopeful in equal measure. It was a true pleasure to read’ Miranda Cowley Heller
‘Unmissable’ STYLIST
‘A really gripping read’ TIMES RADIO
*WINNER OF THE 2023 FRED KERNER BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS*
*FINALIST FOR THE 2023 RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE*
Grief is like an inside joke: you have to have been there to really get it.
Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, sat on a busy street corner with a sky-blue Olivetti typewriter and asked the world a simple, direct question: Can you please tell me a love story?
'Electrifying, deeply unsettling and so, so satisfying' Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss
‘I raced through this compelling tale about shame, single motherhood, and the lies we tell ourselves and other people’ Daily Mail
‘Hilarious… Fiery phrases spit and crackle. Disgust expands and bursts into belly laughs… a very funny book’ Sunday Times
‘Thought-provoking, timely, and extremely funny’ Metro
‘An absolute *blinder* … so so funny and sexy. So excited now to read everything by Crystal Jeans’ Caroline O’Donoghue, author of Scenes of a Graphic Nature
‘One of those rarest of books: so beautiful I almost couldn’t bear it, and so moving I was reading through tears’ STACEY HALLS
‘Uniquely witty, beautifully observed, intricately woven’ MIRANDA HART
‘A truly glorious life-affirming book, in which love, hope and friendship trump sorrow’ DINAH JEFFERIES
When her 22-year-marriage suddenly ended, 47-year-old mother of three Laura expected life as she knew it to be over. What she hadn’t expected:
‘A lyrical and mesmerising mythic quest story’ SUNDAY EXPRESS
‘Extravagantly beautiful writing’ ADELAIDE ADVERTISER
‘Unputdownable’ SYDNEY MORNING HERALD