My Dear I Wanted to Tell You: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “At the heart of My Dear I Wanted To Tell You are an irresistible hero and heroine: the passionate, ambitious, strong-minded Riley and Nadine. How their lives are transformed—literally and figuratively—by World War I makes for a surprisingly suspenseful and tender novel. I was enraptured by these pages.”

  — Margot Livesey, New York Times bestselling author

• “Every once in a while comes a novel that generates its own success, simply by being loved. Louisa Young’s My Dear I Wanted to Tell You inspires the kind of devotion among its readers not seen since David Nicholls’ One Day.”

  — Times (London)

• “Known to children around the world for the bestselling Lionboy series, Louisa Young makes use of her abundant storytelling gifts in her first novel for adults: My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, a moving tale of men and women tested to their limits by World War I.”

  — Washington Post

• “Singular in quality…[A] thoughtful story of English class, world war, and that universal constant—love.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “With well-written, mesmerizing prose reminiscent of an earlier era, this novel will be enjoyed by any fan of romance or historical fiction. The level of detail and description is sometimes shocking but always poignant and relevant.”

  — Library Journal

• “A literate, moving wartime tale in which love triumphs over despair.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “This novel is a triumph.”

  — Elizabeth Jane Howard, author of the Cazelet Chronicles series

• “A month after reading this book it is still on my mind, its characters as clear and their dilemmas still playing themselves out in my mind. I’d thought there was nothing more for fiction to do with the Great War, but Louisa Young has discovered the startlingly modern questions of that great catastrophe.”

  — Linda Grant, author of The Clothes on Their Backs and When I Lived in Modern Times