Mr. Mac and Me - Softcover

"A superbly gifted writer . . . ["Lucky Break" is] breezily charming and typically shrewd, and comes with a new satirical edge . . . Freud creates relationships so fraught and delicate that at times the characters themselves can hardly bear to examine them." --"New York Times Book Review" on "Lucky Break""
""Each of [Freud's] beautifully written books creates a fascinating special world." --"Marie Claire" on "Lucky Break""
""[Freud] has [a] talent for burrowing under people's skins, understanding their motivations . . . A book full of subtle and rounded characters . . . "The Sea House" is a sensuous and intelligent novel about love and the traces it leaves." --"Washington Post Book World" on "The Sea House""
""The entire book radiates with the empathy for which Freud is known . . . "Love Falls" is immediate, organic and kind." --"Times Literary Supplement" on "Love Falls"

"A compelling tale beautifully told, "Mr. Mac and Me" is as close to a perfect novel as anything I've read in a long time. I loved every page of it." -Ann Patchett

Evocative Delicately detailed . .. A touching coming-of-age story, powerfully but gracefully infused with a spirit of place, which also pays tribute to a revered artist."

It's a haunting, haunted story, full of ghosts and drownings, disappointments and sadness, but there's a quality of luminous wonder too, captured in Freud's delicate, lyrical prose and the tenderness and warmth of her depictions of the various characters that make up village life. But it is Thomas, mysterious Thomas, and brusque, beleaguered Mac, who glow in this compelling story of art, friendship and war.

Poignant "Mr Mac and Me "is perhaps Freud's finest, most heartfelt book, written in shimmering prose - and that's saying something since . . . she was named, alongside Jeanette Winterson and Kazuo Ishiguro, among others, one of "Granta"'s best young British novelists."

Evocative . . . Delicately detailed . . . A touching coming-of-age story, powerfully but gracefully infused with a spirit of place, which also pays tribute to a revered artist.--starred review "Kirkus Reviews "

"Evocative . . . Delicately detailed . . . A touching coming-of-age story, powerfully but gracefully infused with a spirit of place, which also pays tribute to a revered artist." --"Kirkus Reviews"

"It's a haunting, haunted story, full of ghosts and drownings, disappointments and sadness, but there's a quality of luminous wonder too, captured in Freud's delicate, lyrical prose and the tenderness and warmth of her depictions of the various characters that make up village life. But it is Thomas, mysterious Thomas, and brusque, beleaguered Mac, who glow in this compelling story of art, friendship and war." --"Independent"

"Poignant . . . "Mr Mac and Me "is perhaps Freud's finest, most heartfelt book, written in shimmering prose--and that's saying something since . . . she was named, alongside Jeanette Winterson and Kazuo Ishiguro, among others, one of "Granta"'s best young British novelists." --"Herald"

Evocative . . . Delicately detailed . . . A touching coming-of-age story, powerfully but gracefully infused with a spirit of place, which also pays tribute to a revered artist. "Kirkus Reviews"

It's a haunting, haunted story, full of ghosts and drownings, disappointments and sadness, but there's a quality of luminous wonder too, captured in Freud's delicate, lyrical prose and the tenderness and warmth of her depictions of the various characters that make up village life. But it is Thomas, mysterious Thomas, and brusque, beleaguered Mac, who glow in this compelling story of art, friendship and war. "Independent"

Poignant . . . "Mr Mac and Me "is perhaps Freud's finest, most heartfelt book, written in shimmering prose--and that's saying something since . . . she was named, alongside Jeanette Winterson and Kazuo Ishiguro, among others, one of "Granta"'s best young British novelists. "Herald""

Evocative . . . Delicately detailed . . . A touching coming-of-age story, powerfully but gracefully infused with a spirit of place, which also pays tribute to a revered artist. Kirkus Reviews

It's a haunting, haunted story, full of ghosts and drownings, disappointments and sadness, but there's a quality of luminous wonder too, captured in Freud's delicate, lyrical prose and the tenderness and warmth of her depictions of the various characters that make up village life. But it is Thomas, mysterious Thomas, and brusque, beleaguered Mac, who glow in this compelling story of art, friendship and war. Independent

Poignant . . . Mr Mac and Me is perhaps Freud's finest, most heartfelt book, written in shimmering prose--and that's saying something since . . . she was named, alongside Jeanette Winterson and Kazuo Ishiguro, among others, one of Granta's best young British novelists. Herald

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