Say Say Say

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Pub Date 08 Aug 2019 | Archive Date 21 May 2019

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‘I cannot think when I Iast read a novel which moved me so deeply. Savage is almost supernaturally alert to the little gestures and transactions we all make as we negotiate our place in the world, and our relations to each other. Her approach is both unflinching and extraordinarily tender, so that I came away feeling I had undergone an examination which was somehow both painful and kind. I loved it, and it has remained with me in a way few other books have ever done.’ - Sarah Perry

'Is brilliant, compelling, entertaining and a joy to read. I love a book that lets me into someone else’s world and makes me feel like I’m making a new friend. I loved that this was a book about a relationship that wasn’t a partner or lover relationship, but nevertheless very intimate. Fantastic. Thanks for sending it to me, I hope it does well. Please quote me if you would like. It is an extraordinarily good book.' - Philippa Perry

'Lila’s observations on the ordinary lives of one carer and one couple living with the wake of a devastating brain injury between them are breathtaking; raw, powerful and pivotally, unabashed. Her writing is effortlessly absorbed. Say Say Say asks what exactly it can mean to love, when you care for life’s most vulnerable people and the answer is both devastating and beautiful.' - Aoife Abbey

Ella is nearing thirty, and not yet living the life she imagined. Her artistic ambitions as a student have given way to an unintended career as a care worker. One spring, Bryn - a retired carpenter - hires her to help him care for Jill, his wife of many years. A car accident caused a brain injury that has left Jill verbally diminished; she moves about the house like a ghost of her former self. As Ella is drawn ever deeper into the couple's household, she is profoundly moved by the tenderness Bryn shows toward the wife he still fiercely loves. Ella is startled by the yearning this awakens in her, one that complicates her feelings for her girlfriend, Alix, and causes her to look at relationships of all kinds - between partners, between employer and employee, and above all between men and women - in new ways. Tightly woven, humane and insightful, tracing the most intimate reaches of a young woman's heart and mind, Say Say Say is a riveting story about what it means to love, in a world where time is always running out.

‘I cannot think when I Iast read a novel which moved me so deeply. Savage is almost supernaturally alert to the little gestures and transactions we all make as we negotiate our place in the world...


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ISBN 9781788162227
PRICE £12.99 (GBP)
PAGES 176

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