Talking at Night

Critics Review

• A beautifully observed, tender love story with characters you really care about…a bit like Normal People. I devoured it

  JOJO MOYES

• Stunning, tender and true

  GOOD HOUSEKEEPING SUMMER READING

• With shades of Sally Rooney, this is a lyrical, tender love story

  Good Housekeeping, 'The books we're looking forward to in 2023'

• Deeply romantic . . . Reminded me of just how all-consuming and transformative first love can be. The more I read, the more I was completely immersed in the story of Rosie and Will and how life, and tragedy, conspire to keep them apart

  LAURA BARNETT, author of THE VERSIONS OF US

• A passionate, page-turning debut

  Daily Mail

• Quietly devastating, entirely beautiful, bruising and hopeful. In a world of compromise, Claire Daverley has created a perfect thing. Talking at Night takes its place amongst my all time favourites. I implore you to read it. I’ll never forget it

  CHRIS WHITAKER, author of WE BEGIN AT THE END

• Talking at Night is a masterful and authentic depiction of true love in all its messy, complicated and gut-wrenching glory. Will and Rosie are the perfect, imperfect star-crossed lovers – their story had me enthralled from the start

  RUTH HOGAN, author of THE KEEPER OF LOST THINGS

• Spellbinding, beautiful, lyrical and tender, Talking at Night is a dazzling debut. I loved every word and was left longing for more

  ROSIE WALSH, bestselling author of THE MAN WHO DIDN'T CALL

• A stunning debut about the complicated nature of love. Like the very best of Sally Rooney with added lashings of heart – I loved it. Claire Daverley has become an automatic must-read for me. A captivating, nuanced and beautiful debut.

  ISABELLE BROOM

• So incredibly beautiful

  HARRIET EVANS

• This exquisitely woven tale of friendship, tragedy and modern romance captures readers right from its opening passages. Captivating . . . Reminiscent of David Nicholls’ wonderful One Day. Enchanting. One of the book’s real strengths is the beautiful, understated quality of Daverley’s writing. Her prose shines and she nails every detail of this spellbinding love story without ever resorting to melodrama. Fans of Sally Rooney’s Normal People will absolutely adore this tender, utterly charming and heart-wrenching tale

  The Scots Magazine

• Included in ‘Best Romantic Summer Reads’

  INDEPENDENT

• The story of Will and Rosie is a classic love story in every sense, and yet, in Claire Daverley’s hands, it felt entirely new. The characters are completely alive from the very first page, and how I rooted for them! Talking at Night could be titled Reading at Night, because I was awake through the night, turning these pages

  MARY BETH KEANE, author of ASK AGAIN, YES

• Writing that is laced with the quiet devastation of Sally Rooney. One of the very best literary love stories I’ve read. Utterly spellbinding

  JULIE OWEN MOYLAN, author of THAT GREEN EYED GIRL

• A classic will-they-won’t-they in the vein of David Nicholls, this novel is impossible to put down. A story of secret night meetings and calls, sunrises and bonfires, quiet moments and heartbreaking missed opportunities. Impeccable dialogue and wonderful characters that will stay with you for a long time

  CONSTANZA CASATI, author of CLYTEMNESTRA

• This book kept me up all night! It’s everything I want from a love story, the will they won’t they, the romance, but also, there is the truthfulness of reality woven into it. This isn’t just escapism, it is also full of heartbreak and human failings and mistakes. I loved it

  KATE SAWYER

• I absolutely adored Talking at Night – it should be on everyone’s must-read list. Beautiful, poignant and heart-wrenching

  CARLEY FORTUNE, author of EVERY SUMMER AFTER

• Talking at Night is a love story, certainly, but it’s much more than that. I was rapt. I highly recommend this wonderful novel

  ANN NAPOLITANO, author of DEAR EDWARD

• If this isn’t on your radar it should be. The chemistry. The longing. The gorgeous prose. An utterly captivating love story. Books like this don’t come along often. Pre-order it now and thank me later

  CARON MCKINLAY, author of THE STORYTELLERS

• An achingly beautiful novel about the people who change us irrevocably. This novel will consume you

  JILL SANTOPOLO, bestselling author of THE LIGHT WE LOST

• Talking at Night is a transcendent marvel. Daverley’s debut is aching and tender. . . the lush, complex characters reminded me of Sally Rooney’s work.

  AMANDA EYRE WARD, bestselling author of THE JETSETTERS

• A beautifully written tale of the messily imperfect course that love takes

  MIKE GAYLE

• Clever, beautiful and romantic. An absolute gem

  RACHEL MARKS, author of HELLO, STRANGER

• Evocative, intoxicating and basically impossible to put down. Like Normal People, it’s a love story which feels so achingly real that you miss the characters when you stop reading

  BOBBY PALMER, author of ISAAC AND THE EGG

• I absolutely loved this book and I’m so jealous of everyone who’s getting to read it for the first time. A summer read for the die-hard romantics. The characters in this book feel so real that you’ll cry tears right alongside them. It’s a 10/10 from me

  17 Degrees