True Love

Remarkable . . . Crewe’s sensitivity to the tentacles of neglect in his characters is phenomenal. Time and again he captures a deep human truth.

Sunday Times

Crewe recounts in lavish, unhurried prose [the protagonists'] respective childhoods, their abrupt coming together, their gradual drifting apart, and the love that keeps the two connected throughout like a magnetic thread . . . There's an earnestness to the writing, yet it’s a heart scorcher just the same. Read it and indulge

Daily Mail

This slow-burn love story is gorgeously written, with two characters you won’t forget easily

Good Housekeeping

Effective and moving . . . Crewe’s prose sings

Financial Times

True Love is a perfect read if you’re looking for a character-driven novel with split narratives or a coming-of-age story that is both heartbreaking and uplifting, reminiscent of Sally Rooney’s work

Press Association

Invokes this sense of melancholy with true deftness . . . Crewe’s unabashed desire to move his readers is to be genuinely commended . . . A full-throated, heart-on-sleeve piece of storytelling

Guardian

Crewe's story is . . . one of low, heavy emotions. But it is sustained throughout by the gruff lyricism of his writing . . . And while the novel moves at a steady pace, it builds to a climactic final third

New Statesman

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

Minnie Driver

Empathetic, honest, compelling. I’ll read anything Paddy Crewe writes.

Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry