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This Love

'The new One Day' The Sunday Times Style

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This Love

By: Lotte Jeffs
Narrated by: Ashley Tucker
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'One Day for a new generation' Grazia

'We're calling it . . . This Love is the new One Day' Sunday Times Style

'A beautifully written, generous-hearted, clever, tender, fresh and unputdownable novel about queerness, family and forgiveness. I loved This Love.' Elizabeth Day

Named a BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH by The Sunday Times Style, Apple Books, Prima, Cosmopolitan, i NEWS, Stylist

When Mae and Ari meet their final year at the University of Leeds, their connection is magnetic. Mae, stubborn and no stranger to breaking hearts, needs Ari's bright light to guide her out of her self-centred ways; Ari, vibrant, charming and reeling in the aftermath of a scandal in New York, clings to Mae as his grounding anchor.

As the years sweep by, the two traverse the tumult of life: toxic partners and hidden secrets, the heavy weight of grief, and a complicated, unignorable desire to start a family . . . If they can hold onto one another in the face of the relentless past and the inevitable future, they might discover how to build something beautiful out of their expansive, boundary-breaking love.

Spanning ten years of extraordinary friendship, This Love is a vivid and epic tale of finding your soulmates, building an unconventional family, and the limitless, ever-changing forms love can take.

'Astute, tender and utterly joy-filled. This is the love story we've been waiting for' Elle©2024 Lotte Jeffs Coming of Age Family Life Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Romance Heartfelt
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Critic reviews

One Day for a new generation.
A beautifully written, generous-hearted, clever, tender, fresh and unputdownable novel about queerness, family and forgiveness. I loved This Love. (Elizabeth Day)
Astute, tender and utterly joy-filled. This is the love story we've been waiting for.
We're calling it . . . This Love is the new One Day
The best parts of Sally Rooney and Gabrielle Zevin merge for this exquisitely paced, modern yet timeless story of love and friendship . . . Pitch perfect, I adored this completely absorbing and compulsive gem. (John Marrs, author of The Good Samaritan)
Incredible . . . a beautiful book full of emotion that will stay with me for a long time. (Nina Pottell, Books Editor at Prima)
I wouldn't be at all surprised if This Love was my book of 2024. The world-building and storytelling is exquisite, the characters so real, the plot perfect. I'm madly jealous of everyone who hasn't read it yet. (Laura Pearson)
Bursting with queer joy and tenderness, This Love is original, compelling and totally gorgeous. An immensely enjoyable ode to the extraordinary power of friendship and forging your own kind of family. I adored it. (Roxy Bourdillon, DIVA magazine)
I had a whirlwind romance with this book. Rarely have I seen myself so clearly in literature. Safe to say I loved it. (Suzi Ruffell)
Anchored by complicated real-world challenges, this novel explores the weight of secrets, toxic partnerings, grief and desire all whilst celebrating the greatest love in so many lives, friendship.
An intensely readable novel about all the love that doesn't fit inside society's neat boundaries (Laura Bates)
This Love is everything you want from a novel, it's funny, sexy, and moving. It's a book full of queer joy that lets us imagine all the hopeful possibilities in the word 'family'. (Claire Lynch, author of small: on motherhoods)
This is a book I will return to again and again. I finished it in the early hours of the morning and was bereft. It's about relationships, our concept of family, what soulmate means . . . I could go on! It's beautiful. (Jennie Godfrey)
It charts its twists and turns with appealingly breezy, emotionally attuned prose
Moving, engrossing and queer as hell, Lotte Jeff's debut novel is a gorgeous love letter to the extraordinary power of queer friendship and forging your own kind of family
I was bereft when I turned the last page, as I didn't want to leave Mae and Ari behind . . . Beautiful and full of emotion, it will stay with me for a long time. (Nina Pottell, "Books of the Month")
A moving portrayal of platonic love and chosen family. It's a reminder that a soulmate doesn't need to be a romantic connection, and that love takes many equally crucial forms.
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Fabulous read couldn’t put it down . I’m sure it will be listened to again pretty soon yeah.

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Loved everything about it, especially the narrator’s voices! Expertly and sensitively presented, with genuinely believable characters.

This love. Beautifully written. A story of true love in whatever guise it presents.

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I loved how this book opened up my views on love. Interesting and low key. Recommend it!

Different love

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Loved the narrator. Have listened to more than 300 audiobooks and she is possibly my favourite. Loved this book. Really got into it.

Great narrator

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Got this book and didn't know much about it.
Then shortly after, fell In love with the main Characters and the story!

loved

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