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Frances has been married to Sol since the beginning of time. He is eccentric and difficult to live with, but she finds him endearing and very funny, even while wanting to strangle him with his own jogging bottoms. Now, something threatens to split them apart. Frances wants one thing and Sol wants another, and there is no way to compromise. But I Told You Last Year That I Loved You is a portrait of a mature marriage at a crossroads - intimate, funny, tender and honest.
"clever, funny, subtle, wry, sad and uplifting all at once... Sue Hepworth writes thoughtfully and insightfully, and with such tenderness and humour" Judith Murray, literary agent
"Writing about autism and Asperger's syndrome is notorious for the ways in which it frequently cannot resist the lure of the sensational and the spectacular. All too often the condition of autism, and individuals and characters with it, are turned into objects of belittling fascination for a reading audience, often as not more than performing sideshows. What is so refreshing about Sue Hepworth's - But I Told You Last Year That I Loved You - is that it avoids all these traps and rather presents Asperger's as a normal, if idiosyncratic, part of everyday life that elicits frustration, comedy and tenderness all at the same time. Hepworth's achievement in making the condition both distinctive and unspectacular, and weaving this into a narrative of romantic and family life, displays a genuinely subtle understanding of how autism - this most contemporary of conditions - works."
Stuart Murray, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Film at Leeds University - expert on the representation of disability in popular culture, and author of Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination (Liverpool University Press, 2008), and Autism (The Routledge Series Integrating Science and Culture) Routledge 2012.
Genre: General Fiction
"clever, funny, subtle, wry, sad and uplifting all at once... Sue Hepworth writes thoughtfully and insightfully, and with such tenderness and humour" Judith Murray, literary agent
"Writing about autism and Asperger's syndrome is notorious for the ways in which it frequently cannot resist the lure of the sensational and the spectacular. All too often the condition of autism, and individuals and characters with it, are turned into objects of belittling fascination for a reading audience, often as not more than performing sideshows. What is so refreshing about Sue Hepworth's - But I Told You Last Year That I Loved You - is that it avoids all these traps and rather presents Asperger's as a normal, if idiosyncratic, part of everyday life that elicits frustration, comedy and tenderness all at the same time. Hepworth's achievement in making the condition both distinctive and unspectacular, and weaving this into a narrative of romantic and family life, displays a genuinely subtle understanding of how autism - this most contemporary of conditions - works."
Stuart Murray, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Film at Leeds University - expert on the representation of disability in popular culture, and author of Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination (Liverpool University Press, 2008), and Autism (The Routledge Series Integrating Science and Culture) Routledge 2012.
Genre: General Fiction
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