Critical Praise

"A bleak tale, beautifully told, about the one burden we must all, as human beings, survive... Hart takes us to a place that, for most of us, has hitherto been both unimagined and unimaginable."

—The Times

"The Truth About Love is an ambitious and poetic weaving of a long-ago family tragedy into the tragic history, and histories, of our time. Josephine Hart has come home in triumph."

—John Banville

"In this compelling and remarkable book, Hart has written a moving lament for exile... The novel’s opening is a tour de force... There are echoes of Beckett and Joyce in Hart’s writing, especially in the brilliantly fractured syntax."

—Times Literary Supplement

"Deeply moving... It packs a punch far beyond its size... An uncompromising tale that explores grief, redemption and memory."

—Irish Independent