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I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

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What to expect

An epic story of love, loss and pining for fans of One Day.

I am in love with somebody I’ve only just met. My heart is a harmonica. South London is a valley. World, hear my song.

‘I loved it, I loved it, I loved it!’ Dawn O’Porter

'Very funny. I Love You, I Love You, I Love You bursts with energy.' Matt Haig

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Ella and Lowe are teenagers when they first meet. For her, it’s love at first sight. But it’s safest to love from afar, where the friendship zone is her safety net and she can’t get hurt.

Over the next fifteen years, they share everything: grief, laughter, friendship, bottles of cider, cigarettes in the rain. But there’s one thing Ella can never ask him: whether he feels the same way about her. And every time Lowe kisses another girl, Ella feels her heart break just that little bit more.

So can you ever really just be friends with the love of your life? And what happens when the day comes when you can’t keep the beautiful, terrifying, all-consuming truth to yourself anymore?

From a unique new voice in adult fiction, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You is a glorious nostalgia trip for anyone who has ever known the exquisite pain and pleasure of first love.

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‘So visceral, nostalgic, mucky, heartbreaking and bittersweet. Just DELICIOUS.' Kirsty Capes

'A transporting, technicolour plunge into first, and enduring, love.' Sophie Dahl

'Glorious and tender, evocative adn heart nourishing.' Salena Godden

Critics Review

  • ‘Laura writes fiction like the poet that she is. No line wasted, every word perfectly placed. The kind of relatable attention to detail that will have you wondering if she stole your teenage diaries and rewrote them with clever insights and laugh out loud humour. I’m not sure I’ve read a book so perfectly observed. It’s every woman’s story of the highs and lows of falling in love, perseverance and self preservation. It will have you reaching for your phone to check in on the one that got away, just in case there is a chance. It’s a reminder that True Love can really exist. It’s a real skill to create a character who is as wild as she is sensible, as chaotic as she is together, as safe as she is dangerous. Ella was perfectly drawn, I rooted for her the whole way. I’ve been waiting for a book to make me laugh this much. I loved it, I loved it, I loved it! Laura is going to take adult fiction by storm, I can’t wait to see what comes next.’

    DAWN O’PORTER

    ‘Laura Dockrill is a delicious writer and I Love You, I Love You, I Love You is glorious and tender, evocative and heart nourishing. I love this author and I love this beautiful book.’

    SALENA GODDEN

    ‘Very funny. I Love You, I Love You, I Love You bursts with energy.’

    MATT HAIG

    ‘An absolutely gorgeous book. So visceral, nostalgic, mucky, heartbreaking and bittersweet. Laura captures that weird pocket of time so perfectly: before smartphones, MySpace and calling your mates on the house phone and shag bands and Green Day and all those insecurities and the sharpness of every new experience and feeling. Just DELICIOUS.’

    KIRSTY CAPES

    ‘It’s a transporting, technicolour plunge into first, and enduring, love. As ever, Laura Dockrill’s voice is entirely her own. She writes from the inside out and it’s beautiful.’

    SOPHIE DAHL

    ‘A nostalgic journey through the highs and lows of first love.’

    GUARDIAN

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