{"id":414,"date":"2015-01-07T19:03:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T19:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/?page_id=414"},"modified":"2015-01-08T15:41:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T15:41:40","slug":"ten-things-ive-learnt-about-love","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.urbanwords.org.uk\/sarah\/ten-things-ive-learnt-about-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Things…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ten<\/a>My debut novel Ten Things I\u2019ve Learnt About Love<\/a>, weaves a story of love, loss, rootlessness and homecoming across the streets of contemporary London. It is published by Picador<\/a> in the UK, Penguin Press<\/a> in the US, and in 14 other countries around the world, from Sweden to Russia, Turkey to Taiwan.<\/p>\n

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The Story<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Alice has just returned to London from months of travelling abroad. She is late to hear the news that her father is dying, and arrives at the family home only just in time to say goodbye.<\/p>\n

Daniel hasn\u2019t had a roof over his head for years, but to him the city of London feels like home in a way that no bricks and mortar ever did. He spends every day searching for his daughter; the daughter he has never met. Until now . . .<\/p>\n

Heart-wrenching and life-affirming, this is a unique story of love lost and found, of rootlessness and homecoming and the power of the ties that bind. It is a story for fathers and daughters everywhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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You can read an extract from the beginning of the novel on Picador\u2019s website<\/a> and ‘like’ the Facebook Page<\/a> to get the occasional update.<\/p>\n

Ten Things I\u2019ve Learnt About Love<\/em> is now out in paperback. You can buy it from Foyles<\/a>, Blackwells<\/a>, WHSmiths<\/a>, Waterstones<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

\"overview\"<\/a>If you’re interested in how books are made, read my blog post<\/a> about visiting the factory where Ten Things<\/em> was printed.<\/p>\n

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Reviews<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\"book<\/a>\u2018Sarah Butler writes a very real London, linking paths through the city with a moving, eloquent story of love, loss and family\u2019 Stella Duffy<\/p>\n

\u2018A very enjoyable read . . . subtle and clever\u2019 Clare Morrall, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Astonishing Splashes of Colour<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018A hymn to London \u2013 poetic and incantatory. The gripping, hopeful love story is deftly threaded through wonderfully detailed, sensuous prose\u2019 Martina Evans<\/p>\n

\u2018Heartbreaking and hopeful, Ten Things I\u2019ve Learnt About Love criss-crosses London in a search for fathers and daughters, family and home. For anyone who has ever wondered where they belong, or to whom they belong, the answer can be found within Sarah Butler\u2019s tender debut novel\u2019 Vanessa Diffenbaugh, author of The Language of Flowers<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018A tender and imaginative novel about love, belonging and the ties that bind, this is a beautifully written book that shows the reader contemporary London through the eyes of two people on personal journeys.\u2019 Choice<\/em> magazine<\/p>\n

\u2018If this weren’t billed as a debut novel, one would never know it. Sarah Butler writes with the deftness and delicacy of a master storyteller, giving us a compassionate, achingly beautiful rendering of a father and daughter.\u2019 Hillary Jordan, author of Mudbound<\/em> and When She Woke<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Graceful and subtle\u2026 love, in all its shape-shifting complexity, is at the core of this novel; that and the consequences \u2013 good and bad \u2013 of keeping secrets\u2026 The shifting and intricate dynamics of family life, and the vertiginously painful feelings of loss induced by relationship breakdown and bereavement, are written with imaginative precision. This is a thought- as well as emotion-provoking novel\u2026 It also sparkles with hope.\u2019 Independent on Sunday<\/em><\/p>\n

\"francesca<\/a>\u2018Increasingly suspenseful\u2026 a moving and satisfying debut\u2019 John Harding, Daily Mail<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018A warm-hearted, hopeful fable about trying to stay true to yourself: about losing parents, building bridges and seeing miracles in the dust on the pavement\u2019 Maggie Gee<\/p>\n

\u2018This poignant novel about fathers and daughters, homecoming and restlessness, is also a love letter to London\u2026 Butler has viewed the city in all its weathers and moods, and this shines through on every page. Equally elegant are her observations of the emotional turmoil of her main characters as they pace the capital\u2019s highways and byways, united by a secret\u2026 A moving, life-affirming debut.\u2019 Marie Claire<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018In a novel flitting between the perspectives of young Alice and homeless older gentleman Daniel, Butler gives an astute insight into both their worlds.\u2019 The Big Issue<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Explores the bonds and fractures between fathers and daughters\u2026 This is a novel strong in both style and substance that tells a poignant tale of hope and love regained\u2019 We Love This Book<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Exquisitely written\u2026 Butler writes with lucidity, compassion and a beautifully detailed eye for London and all its quirks\u2019 Metro<\/em>
\n\u2018[A] delicately told debut novel\u2019 Book of the Week on Oprah.com<\/p>\n

\"Downstairs<\/a>\u2018a carefully structured story that invites and even requires puzzle-solving … a novel that often evokes strong feeling\u2019 The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018[A] soulful debut … Spare language and an atmosphere of foreboding will keep readers on tenterhooks.\u2019 Kirkus Reviews<\/em> (starred review)<\/p>\n

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