The Weight of Loss by Sally Oliver

The Weight of Loss by Sally Oliver

How do you find peace after a devastating loss? A search for solace takes a dark turn in this electrifying debut.

'It's hard to believe The Weight of Loss by Sally Oliver is a debut novel because the writing and pacing are so confident and assuredCompulsive and deeply unsettling. Don't start it if you have stuff to do!'

-- Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures

'I love Sally Oliver's writing... I found the whole thing addictive.'

-- Helen Fisher, author of Space Hopper

'Daring, unsettling and original, The Weight of Loss is a debut to savour. Sally Oliver writes with startling intensity.'

-- Victoria Gosling, author of Before the Ruins

'The Weight of Loss is a wrenching, viscerally weird novel of grief, longing and mortality. Perceptive, erudite and powerful, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about how much I loved it!'

-- Leon Craig, author of Parallel Hells

'Intelligent, addictive, and unsettling. Sally Oliver is a thoughtful, gorgeous writer, and this layered exploration of trauma, family, and selfhood will linger.'

-- Julia Fine, author of What Should Be Wild

'A deeply unsettling story, told at a brilliantly controlled pace and rendered in luminous prose. It's like the love child of early Ian McEwan and Nicola Barker.'

-- Ali Millar, author of The Last Days

'An affecting portrait of a young life shaped by grief, set against an unnerving, surreal medical backdrop, somewhere between My Year of Rest and Relaxation and A Cure for Wellness... A remarkable, thought-provoking, vivid book.'

-- Will Wiles, author of Plume

'The Weight of Loss is a beautifully written and intensely felt novel. Its subject matter – grief and mortality – is timeless, but its method, a startling combination of emotional realism and gothic horror, feels brand new.'

-- Ian McGuire, author of The Abstainer

'Strangely ethereal, yet entirely solid and compelling, this is a unique novel that talks with startling clarity and composure about the in-between spaces, the possibilities of being, and the connection between the living and the dead.' 

-- Alice Ash, author of Paradise Block

'A...reflective but ultimately engrossing thriller with a strong emotional core.’

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'The Weight of Loss ripples with visceral language that conceals an ominous underbelly, ever threatening to burst free... Oliver’s prose is quite captivating. She writes with a poetic precision, deftly balancing sections with words charged with sexual and fatalistic tension in equal parts.'

-- Chicago Review of Books

'Gripping, gory and addictive... An exploration of grief and trauma in a weird health retreat where all is not as it seems.'

-- Amanda Craig, author of The Golden Rule

'I started reading The Weight of Loss without knowing what to expect. And I was delighted to be gripped from the very first page - a very curious and compelling opening scene - and I finished the novel in 3 days. It is addictive reading, carrying the reader along through a clever narrative structure and raising many intriguing questions. The last fifty pages are intense and I was swept along by the strangeness of the story. But it is both strange and somehow very real at the same time: I've never read anything quite like it. Beautiful!'

-- Lucy Ashe, author of Clara & Olivia

Sally Oliver earned a Master's degree in English Literature at Lancaster University before moving to London to begin her career in publishing. She now works at the literary agency Greene & Heaton. The Weight of Loss is her debut novel.  

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ISBN 13	9780861543953
ISBN 10	0861543955
Title	The Weight of Loss
Author	Sally Oliver
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oneworld Publications
Year published	2023-03-02
Number of pages	320
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