My Sister and Other Lovers

A captivating coming-of-age novel about love, sisterhood and secrets

Esther Freud author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publishing:4th Jun '26

£9.99

This title is due to be published on 4th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

My Sister and Other Lovers cover

A captivating coming-of-age novel about love, sisterhood, secrets and betrayal

‘A subtle, clever, evocative book’ Joanna Quinn, Guardian Book of the Day

From the author of Hideous Kinky comes a captivating novel about sisterhood, secrets, betrayal and love.


For as long as Lucy can remember, she’s been caught between loyalty to her rootless, idealistic mother and devotion to her fierce and exacting sister, Bea. From her unsettled childhood to her turbulent teenage years, she’s been forced to make a choice.

But as the sisters come of age and embark on their own experiments – in love, drugs, work, motherhood – they find their lives, and their relationships, increasingly in turmoil.

Can the love they have for each other transcend the damage of the past? Or is the past too dangerous to examine?

Freud is brilliant at capturing the time in a personal and a global sense … The details are so vivid you feel like you’re remembering the events yourself … it demands and rewards close attention * The Times *
Gorgeous and sad and gripping and moving - brutally honest about our search for love * Marian Keyes *
A novel with the sharp tang of memory … I was swept up into this world of visceral intimacies, the fraught but powerful relationships between the main characters more than gripping enough to carry me along … It’s the relationship between the sisters that lies at the heart of the novel, and Freud teases out its various pressure points with delicate, moving effect … This beguiling story of female experience and family ties is well worth the three-decade wait * Financial Times *

ISBN: 9781526686572

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

288 pages