![]() You start the book thinking you couldn't possibly identify with someone who spends so much of the day closeted away in tracksuit bottoms with the curtains closed, only to remain riveted to the spot, unable to do anything else but read, until you turn the last page and look up to find it's 3 p.m., the curtains are still drawn, and there you are sitting in the dark in your tracksuit bottoms.Īt Picador, the response to Kiss Me First was electric from the moment people started reading. It's an astonishing act of literary ventriloquism and a testament to Lottie's skill as a novelist that she makes such a nerdy, literal and sheltered person feel so poignantly vulnerable, so human, so unexpectedly empathetic. ![]() ![]() More than anything – even the electrifying opening, where two strangers who have come to know everything about one another have their final conversation – it was the voice of Leila, the narrator, that got me. It's just over eighteen months since I first read Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach, and though I've read it a number of times since I will never forget the tingly feeling of anticipation that began on page one and bloomed into the total, heart-pounding obsession that comes with reading a novel you can't bear to put down. ![]()
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