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Lucy Fry's story opens with the heady and impassioned affair she embarked on during her wife's pregnancy. It is a relationship that appears to be unstoppable, perhaps even addictive, despite guilt and self-questioning.  With intense and unflinching honesty, she takes her readers on a compelling journey from childhood trauma to addiction then sobriety, infidelity to polyamory and, perhaps most intensely of all, from her fear around being a parent to her exquisite joy at having a son.  L and B's love for their new baby, `The Boy', changes the dynamic once again. They fumble through early parenthood, in a way that many will recognise, while at the same time trying to fathom and fashion a unique journey of their own. 'An important voice, beautifully written.' - Evie Wyld  'A searing and whip-smart account of love of all kinds...Reminiscent of Nelson's The Argonaut... will change the way you think - and feel - about love.' - Meg-John Barker 'Hot, warm, raw and intense...' - Zoe Williams 'A deeply moving and honest account of love and life that I couldn't put down.' - Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

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'An important voice, beautifully written.'-Evie Wyld; 'Hot, warm, raw and intense -a fully achieved work of memoir, and funny in the way that only the truthful can be.' Zoe Williams; 'A beautiful, searing and whip-smart account of love of all kinds. In offering such a vivid and honest reflection on her own experiences, Fry invites us all to reflect on the ways in which love and loss-of-love profoundly shape our lives. Reminiscent of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts, reading this book will change the way you think-and feel-about love.'Meg-John Barker, author of Rewriting the Rules and Queer: A Graphic History; 'This is a deeply moving and honest account of love and life that I couldn't put down. It is a stunning piece of writing-full of courage, heart, pain and beauty. The experience of reading it is one of being profoundly trusted with someone's innermost hopes and desires. It makes you feel so grateful that someone can articulate your own inner thoughts and complicated feelings so perfectly.' Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, playwright and screenwriter

'An important voice, beautifully written.' - Evie Wyld. 'Hot, warm, raw and intense - a fully achieved work of memoir, and funny in the way that only the truthful can be.' Zoe Williams. 'A beautiful, searing and whip-smart account of love of all kinds. In offering such a vivid and honest reflection on her own experiences, Fry invites us all to reflect on the ways in which love and loss-of-love profoundly shape our lives. Reminiscent of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts, reading this book will change the way you think and feel about love.' - Meg-John Barker, author of Rewriting the Rules and Queer: A Graphic History. 'This is a deeply moving and honest account of love and life that I couldn't put down. It is a stunning piece of writing-full of courage, heart, pain and beauty. The experience of reading it is one of being profoundly trusted with someone's innermost hopes and desires. It makes you feel so grateful that someone can articulate your own inner thoughts and complicated feelings so perfectly.' - Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, playwright and screenwriter. 'Enjoying this moving and honest memoir by Lucy Fry on building a queer polyamorous relationship. Finding it very interesting and easy to read so far. Gorgeous cover, too!' - Katie is Reading, Bookstagrammer. 'An intoxicating, thrilling and compelling read. A very honest and real portrayal of her relationships as an adult and also with her parents in childhood. The content is explicit but necessary and the writing is brilliant.' - Amy and Books, Bookstagrammer. 'Lucy Fry weaves thistles and roses, with blistered & bleeding hands, into a creative account of her life; childhood trauma, depression, addiction, sobriety, queerness, parenthood, sexsexsex, infidelity, ethical non-monogamy and polyamory. This is a pain-soaked read, but Lucy shines a bright light on what all too often stays hidden. She kicks 'the unsaid' directly between its monstrous eyes. She is wild.' - Zoe Hearts Books, Bookstagrammer. 'Beautifully written [and] stunningly put together.' - Cen_sational Reads, Bookstagrammer. 'The book starts in an extremely divisive matter, launching straight into an affair the author was having whilst her wife was pregnant. Fry employs this level of shock throughout the book, building the reader up and then employing hard truths when your guard is down. This is a book in which you learn as much about yourself as you do the author.' - Jodie Reads Books, Bookstagrammer. 'This isn't always an easy read and Lucy writes unapologetically about self-discovery and finding her way. That is what makes this book so special. If you have struggled with figuring out who you are and who you're becoming as a woman, or a mother, or a wife/partner, I think you will recognise elements of yourself in Lucy's writing. I know I did.' - Little Red Library, Bookstagrammer. 'Lucy's prose is intelligent, funny, acerbic and wonderfully descriptive. A... delicate and beautiful exploration of what love can mean in our modern, sexually liberalised society. Definitely one to read to gain new perspectives on life and love, after all, it is essentially a love story but one that explores loves greatest highs and lows. ' - The Candid Book Club, Bookstagrammers. '...unflinching and intense, yet incredibly thoughtful and warm, it touched my heart, and opened my mind, in fact, I rather fell in love with this book.' - Liz Robinson, LoveReading Pick of the Month. 'This is a memoir like nothing else I've ever read. There is so much passion and honesty involved.' - Reading_For_My_Mind, Bookstagrammer. '[A] fantastic memoir about polyamory and queer family making... by the brilliant Lucy Fry.' - Brighton Feminist Bookshop, Book of the Month.

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Lucy Fry is a journalist who writes widely on physical and mental health. A graduate from Oriel College, Oxford, with an MSc in Creative Writing from Edinburgh University, she is training to be a psychotherapist. She lives in South London with her wife and son. Easier Ways to Say I Love You was published by Myriad in February 2020.

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