Dying to Know You

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Deliberate in pace and carefully insightful in its investigation of character, Chamber's latest is a work of art that repays multiple readings -- Michael Cart * Booklist * Packed to the brim with challenging ideas, the latest from Chambers is simultaneously an acutely observed and surprising love story. An organic yet intricately crafted story of self-discovery . . . This is a generous gift * Publishers Weekly * This is a teasingly provocative and touching cross-generational story, written with a rare candour about love, sex, thoughts of suicide and growing old -- Julia Eccleshare * Guardian * Chambers is so skilled, so calmly truthful in his writing. What emerges is not just a moving, unexpected story of the complexity of teenagers, but also a story of later life, of ageing and loss, and what experience really means -- Patrick Ness * Guardian * It takes a writer with the superb skill and sensitivity of Chambers to adapt the Cyrano de Bergerac story and turn it into a modern tale of grief, growth and acceptance . . . Great tenderness, authentic dialogue and elegantly crafted plotting. A book to be read and re-read -- Sally Morris * Daily Mail * A wonderful book about friendship, words, and our deepest, most hidden selves. Elegant, precise prose and wonderful dialogue in which space has as much to say as words. This is a book to return to * The Bookbag * A heart-warming contemporary love story * Booked Up! * Dying to Know You is a thoughtful and insightful novel and after turning the last page I was left with the impression that just maybe this writer's story could be Chambers' too * So Many Books, So Little Time * A gentle tale stuffed full of drama, elements of coming-of-age, dealing with grief and first love that make it irresistible * My Favourite Books * This book is interesting, fun, and very insightful. Chambers takes an inventive approach to his writing * Examiner.com *