Dying to Know You
- Published: 26 April 2012
- ISBN: 9781448120314
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
Deliberate in pace and carefully insightful in its investigation of character, Chamber’s latest is a work of art that repays multiple readings
Michael Cart, Booklist
Packed to the brim with challenging ideas, the latest from Chambers is simultaneously an acutely observed and surprising love story. An organic yet intricately crafted story of self-discovery . . . This is a generous gift
Publishers Weekly
Chambers delivers yet another intellectually satisfying novel with equal parts philosophy and repartee
The Horn Book
A real page turner
Bliss
A heart-warming contemporary love story
Booked Up!
A wonderful book about friendship, words, and our deepest, most hidden selves. Elegant, precise prose and wonderful dialogue in which space has as much to say as words. This is a book to return to
The Bookbag
It takes a writer with the superb skill and sensitivity of Chambers to adapt the Cyrano de Bergerac story and turn it into a modern tale of grief, growth and acceptance . . . Great tenderness, authentic dialogue and elegantly crafted plotting. A book to be read and re-read
Sally Morris, Daily Mail
Dying to Know You is a thoughtful and insightful novel and after turning the last page I was left with the impression that just maybe this writer’s story could be Chambers’ too
So Many Books, So Little Time
A gentle tale stuffed full of drama, elements of coming-of-age, dealing with grief and first love that make it irresistible
My Favourite Books
This book is interesting, fun, and very insightful. Chambers takes an inventive approach to his writing
Examiner.com
Truly brilliant and unforgettable
Fiction Fascination
This book is like nothing else I have ever read . . . An excellent YA read
The Overflowing Library
Chambers is so skilled, so calmly truthful in his writing. What emerges is not just a moving, unexpected story of the complexity of teenagers, but also a story of later life, of ageing and loss, and what experience really means
Patrick Ness, Guardian
This is a teasingly provocative and touching cross-generational story, written with a rare candour about love, sex, thoughts of suicide and growing old
Julia Eccleshare, Guardian
A feelgood and story that quietly challenges a whole range of touchy subjects and social taboo
Sugarscape