Memory of Love (Olsson) - Book Reviews

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Exquisitely rendered…quietly gripping.
Cleveland Plain Dealer


Haunting and beautiful, [The Memory of Love] is a reminder of the fragility of happiness and the impossibility of living without hope.
Otago Times (New Zealand)


Linda Olsson writes beautifully, capturing the fragile nature of her characters and the beauty of the rugged landscape around her with great precision and subtlety. A hugely evocative book. The story gets under your skin and will live on long after the final page has been turned.
Gisborne Herald (New Zealand)


The emotional weather of the story is changeable and dramatic, with storm clouds sometimes threatening, unpredictable tides and winds of inner conflict, and chance meetings.… It is the storytelling, of course, that is most seductive, with the right balance between the disclosure and holding back of information to keep us reading to the end—appreciating at every twist a writer delighting in her craft.
Sunday Star Times (New Zealand)


[A] tender, loving story…concerned with searching and healing.… You sense an author of real integrity.
Weekend Herald  (New Zealand)


Olsson's lyrical style is perfectly suited to the reflective tenderness that characterises Marion's narrative voice.… The tragedies of the novel, combined with the powerful resonance of the windswept and lonely coast, makes [The Memory of Love] a heavily atmospheric novel of great emotional weight.
Listener  (New Zealand)


Olsson successfully intertwines New Zealand and Sweden to create a beautiful and compelling story.
Mahrangimatters  (New Zealand)


One of the most stirring and sensitive books I have read for a long time.… An outstanding read.
Star  (New Zealand)


[A] touching, if far-fetched, tale.… The author’s prose is at times pinched and lapidary, while at others, effusive and overstated, and sometimes both.… [Yet] Olsson handles Marion and Ika’s story in a beautifully natural fashion.
Publishers Weekly


[A] deeply poetic novel...and a credit to Olsson’s narrative technique….Fans of Jennifer Haigh and Heidi W. Durrow will appreciate this darkly emotional novel.
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