My Sister and Other Lovers

Both delicate and profound – about how relationships bind us together and pull us apart -- Tracy Chevalier
Frank, tender and unequivocal - Esther Freud brings us directly inside the beating and bleeding hearts of her characters. I loved this -- Miranda Cowley Heller
Esther Freud is that rare thing - a writer who trusts the intelligence of her readers ... My Sister and Other Lovers details the profound and complex nature of love and family. Spare, moving and beautifully written -- Jojo Moyes
Getting to know it slowly page by page has been like getting to know a person whom you know, by the end, you have grown to love ... It’s a triumph of a book. Elegant and luminous and incredibly moving. I am telling everyone about it - it will stay with me for a very long time -- Rachel Joyce
I loved it and gulped it down in a day ... Such sparse, elegant writing, yet still somehow gloriously vivid and deeply intense. So alive is each character now in my mind, so involved was I in their stories that I can still sense them beside me, and long to continue the conversation ... This will go down a storm -- Gill Hornby
From now on, whenever I hear anyone refer to anything as "Freudian" I am going to assume they mean prose that's slender and perfect and sparkling. I'm stricken with love for this book -- Meg Mason
I Ioved this book. Freud captures so many moments that are universal to many - falling in love, navigating parents, making mistakes, and all told with wonderful compassion -- Hannah Rothschild
How I loved this elegant novel. What sheer pleasure it is to be back in such sure and stylish hands. Esther Freud is peerless! -- Francesca Segal
Dazzling * Sainsburys Magazine *
I loved My Sister and Other Lovers as I have loved each and every one of Esther Freud’s books: she writes with an emotional deftness that is pearl-like, and captures sisterly love in all of its complex, tender, simmering ferocious glory -- Sophie Dahl
An absolute pleasure to read ... An exquisite, elliptical novel, written with cool restraint: every sentence, every word, feels perfectly judged. How lovely to be in the hands of a writer who fully trusts her reader to come along with her and swim through the gaps without needing everything to be spelled out. What a joy this book is -- Rebecca Wait
A non-stop delight … I couldn't love it more … It makes one want to clap hands and dance. It’s all so beautifully evoked, so vividly sensual -- Barbara Trapido

What a total delight to re-encounter the irrepressible sisters from Hideous Kinky, a little older, wilder, wiser and discovering the punky joys of music, drama, love and adventure in 1970s London

-- Amanda Craig
My Sister and Other Lovers is such absorbing, quick-on-its feet reading, a lovely companion. Freud's particular mixture of gentle touch and deep echo is there on every page. What a writer she is -- Susannah Clapp
A coming-of-age portrait of sisterhood and betrayal from the author of Hideous Kinky * Guardian, the books to look forward to in 2025 *
Praise for Esther Freud: ‘Freud is a modern literary rarity: a born storyteller * The Times *
As close to a perfect novel as anything I’ve read in a long time. I loved every page of it -- Ann Patchett
We know we’re alive because of the stories we tell each other, and the things we make, and the people we love, and that’s all we ever get. Freud knows that, and it is good to be reminded * Guardian *
The sharp intimacy of the writing is ... full of compassion and a profound decency * Sunday Times *
In a culture which dins with brashness and self-advertisement, attending to Esther Freud's still, truthful voice becomes not only a pleasure but a necessity -- Jonathan Coe
Exquisite ... Delivers an emotional punch that left me in tears -- Rachel Joyce
You will weep with happiness and sadness -- Emma Barnett
I read it non-stop through the night, finding myself simultaneously uplifted and wrung out by the emotional power of the story and by its ambitious social and historical range. It couldn't be better -- Barbara Trapido
Beautiful, moving, wonderful -- Sam Baker
Freud is a consummate novelist. Her work is always intensely imagined and vividly observed, her characters alive … her story page-turning, complex and emotionally satisfying * Spectator *