Publisher's Synopsis
Part memoir, part imagined history, author Sophie Ratcliffe combines her own experience of love, bereavement and muses on the messiness of everyday life. What if you could tell the truth about who you are? This is a book about the things we hide from other people. Love affairs, grief, domestic strife and the mess at the bottom of your handbag. An extended train journey frames the action - and the author turns not to self-help manuals but to the fictions that have shaped our emotional and romantic landscape. As scenes in her own life collide with the stories of real and imaginary heroines, The Lost Properties of Love asks how we might find new ways of thinking about love and intimacy in the twenty-first century. Frank and painfully funny, this contemporary take on Brief Encounter - told to a backing track of classic 80s songs - is a compelling look at the workings of the human heart. "Raw, truthful, witty and occasionally sublime. The inside of your handbag will never seem the same again." PAULA BYRNE, bestselling author of The Real Jane Austen
