Spud - Learning To Fly by De Ruit, John Van

Rating: 3/5 (26 Reviews)
Isbn:9781905636228
Author:Angela Young
Pages:329
Publisher:Beautiful Books

This edition is out of print.This ebook edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... is the only edition available now.What happens when people find it impossible to say the words ‘I love you’?Parents fail their children and those same children abandon their parents; lovers grow apart and, occasionally, mental disintegration prohibits communication altogether. Iris experiences pain, loneliness and fear. Her daughter, Vivie, longs for love but thinks herself unlovable. And Matthew, Vivie’s would-be lover, fails to say how he feels. Speaking of Love is nonetheless a novel about hope and the restoration of trust, a novel that shows how stories can help make sense of our complicated internal worlds. When a single moment brings all the characters together there is an opportunity for years of mistrust, hopelessness and loneliness to give way to reconciliation and, most of all, the opportunity for each person to find the courage to say what is in their hearts.‘The real risk, it seems to me, lies in not talking about the things that matter the most. That’s what made Iris ill. What we don’t say doesn’t go away.’