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A gripping novel about a crisis of love and trust on the brink of bereavement. Carla's distinguished father Frank is dying and she's running out of time. She needs him to understand what it has cost her to be the good daughter through his many difficult marriages; and she needs him to show her some love. Frank's will is a travesty. But what can you say to a man who is dying? Old flame Phillip has meanwhile left his wife and wants Carla badly. On the edge of bereavement Carla knows she cannot afford to make herself vulnerable again. She is afraid of asking too much of Phillip and having her heart broken. But Carla has a flair for passionate complication and suddenly the pain of leave-taking and the precarious excitement of new romance blend in alarming ways. Can she find the grace to love through the hurt and grief, or does she fight for the truth in both these relationships -whatever the price? Say You Love Me is a gripping novel about the cost of filial and romantic love.

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Praise for Conrad Williams: 'Conrad Williams's prose is spellbinding' The Irish Times 'A superb writer' Miami Herald 'A command performance. Williams achieves a series of stylistic tours de force and ends with a starburst. Flying colours' The Independent 'Supremely intense and intelligent...Conrad Williams writes like a dream.' Publishing News 'Like Martin Amis at his funniest' The Times 'Savagely acute...brilliant...and enlivening' Gramophone 'An exceptionally good read. Emotionally real. The kind of book you pick up and don't put down.' Musical Times 'Devastating. Intellectually engaged...a remarkably well-made narrative.' The Guardian 'Absorbingly interesting and tense...with darkly comic relief.' TLS

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