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- English
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About this book
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A deeply affecting novel, In Bloom tells of strength, survival, forgiveness, resilience and determination, and the fierce love and unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters.
Delph has kept herself small and quiet as a form of self-protection, ever since the love of her life Sol’s untimely death left her pregnant and alone at the age of twenty-four. Theirs was such a once-in-a-lifetime love, that the loss of her soulmate broke her heart ‒ and almost broke her, too.
Years on, Delph’s protective bubble bursts when her daughter Roche moves out of the flat Delph shares with her partner Itsy and in with her estranged nan, Moon. Now that it’s just the two of them, the cracks in Delph and Itsy’s relationship begin to grow. Feeling on the outside of the bond between her fierce-yet-flaky tarot-reading mother and volatile martial-arts-champion daughter, Delph begins questioning her own freedom.
Is her life with Itsy all it seems? And has keeping small and safe truly been her choice all these years…?
Praise for In Bloom:
‘I’m a sucker for a mother-daughter tale at the best of times and In Bloom certainly didn’t let me down. Bittersweet, funny, very real. I couldn’t put it down’ Louise Hare
‘Sensitively explores the lives of three generations of women as they search for freedom from guilt and regret. In this novel of hope and love Eva Verde shows that there is always the potential for a second chance’ Sarah Armstrong, author of The Moscow Wolves series
'A beautiful tale of resilience' Heat
'A really powerful, beautifully written story about three generations of working class women with each character so vividly drawn that they leap off the page' Red Online
'Raw and insightful' Good Housekeeping
Praise for Lives Like Mine:
‘Londoner Eva Verde’s Lives Like Mine explores the theme of a school-run affair and the complications and joys it brings to a dual-heritage mother struggling with her intolerant in-laws’ Independent
'A bitter sweet story of longing and self-discovery, of deceit and regret. Visceral, authentic and funny, Eva’s prose reads like something between a conversation and a confession. An exciting new voice and a joy to read' Kit de Waal
‘Eva's writing breaks new ground in a confident and original voice, with a sharp eye for detail, wonderful characterisation and some seriously badass humour’ Yvvette Edwards, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted novel, A Cupboard Full of Coats
A deeply affecting novel, In Bloom tells of strength, survival, forgiveness, resilience and determination, and the fierce love and unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters.
Delph has kept herself small and quiet as a form of self-protection, ever since the love of her life Sol’s untimely death left her pregnant and alone at the age of twenty-four. Theirs was such a once-in-a-lifetime love, that the loss of her soulmate broke her heart ‒ and almost broke her, too.
Years on, Delph’s protective bubble bursts when her daughter Roche moves out of the flat Delph shares with her partner Itsy and in with her estranged nan, Moon. Now that it’s just the two of them, the cracks in Delph and Itsy’s relationship begin to grow. Feeling on the outside of the bond between her fierce-yet-flaky tarot-reading mother and volatile martial-arts-champion daughter, Delph begins questioning her own freedom.
Is her life with Itsy all it seems? And has keeping small and safe truly been her choice all these years…?
Praise for In Bloom:
‘I’m a sucker for a mother-daughter tale at the best of times and In Bloom certainly didn’t let me down. Bittersweet, funny, very real. I couldn’t put it down’ Louise Hare
‘Sensitively explores the lives of three generations of women as they search for freedom from guilt and regret. In this novel of hope and love Eva Verde shows that there is always the potential for a second chance’ Sarah Armstrong, author of The Moscow Wolves series
'A beautiful tale of resilience' Heat
'A really powerful, beautifully written story about three generations of working class women with each character so vividly drawn that they leap off the page' Red Online
'Raw and insightful' Good Housekeeping
Praise for Lives Like Mine:
‘Londoner Eva Verde’s Lives Like Mine explores the theme of a school-run affair and the complications and joys it brings to a dual-heritage mother struggling with her intolerant in-laws’ Independent
'A bitter sweet story of longing and self-discovery, of deceit and regret. Visceral, authentic and funny, Eva’s prose reads like something between a conversation and a confession. An exciting new voice and a joy to read' Kit de Waal
‘Eva's writing breaks new ground in a confident and original voice, with a sharp eye for detail, wonderful characterisation and some seriously badass humour’ Yvvette Edwards, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted novel, A Cupboard Full of Coats
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Grief is a Forever Binding Thing
- Chapter 1: The Danger of a Single Story
- Chapter 2: Renegade in Retrograde
- Chapter 3: Live Werk Pose
- Chapter 4: Keep On Moving On
- Chapter 5: Box Rooms, Boxed Thoughts
- Chapter 6: Part One Tiny Wings Try
- Chapter 6: Part Two Tiny Wings Tried
- Chapter 7: Hero in a Shell Suit
- Chapter 8: Waterfront Sunset
- Chapter 9: The Cavernous Future
- Chapter 10: Temporary Libertine
- Chapter 11: One day in your Life
- Chapter 12: Two for Joy
- Chapter 13: Firestarter
- Chapter 14: Better Things
- Chapter 15: Decoupling pour un(e)
- Chapter 16: Fury
- Chapter 17: The Healing
- Chapter 18: Acts of Resistance
- Chapter 19: Therapy
- Chapter 20: It could all be so lovely
- Chapter 21: Thankless Tasks
- Chapter 22: The Coven
- Chapter 23: Reality Burns
- Chapter 24: Great-Grandfather Tennyson
- Chapter 25: Edinburgh
- Chapter 26: Scholarships: AKA Flora and Folk Tales
- Chapter 27: Inspector Eden – and A Second Flourish
- Chapter 28: The Dazzling Future
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright