Meg Rosoff is a wonderful, captivating writer – her evocation of place and time are pitch perfect. 5 *****
—Daily Telegraph
A poetically charged romance, full of thorny emotional dilemmas… Meg Rosoff has created a feisty 19th-century heroine whose troubles and travails are strikingly salient in the world of modern romance.
—Marie Claire Magazine
Meg Rosoff writes harrowing, psychologically complex crossover novels. An international bestseller, How I Live Now, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and took the Printz Award and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. Just in Case and What I Was are intense enough to galvanize teens and adults. The same holds true for her compulsively readable new novel The Bride’s Farewell. Rosoff’s prose is strong and muscular, its cadence that of a horse’s canter, its chiming tone ballad-like. Teens will be enthralled by Pell and her archetypal quest; adults will revel in the novel’s canny wit, lyricism and piercing insights.
—LA Times
As exhilarating as a ride across the moors, Rosoff’s fourth novel is rich in the emotional landscape of the untamed female heart. The Bride’s Farewell has elements of Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn, Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles and a good number of Flambards books, yet Rosoff’s vivid, pared-down style brings it closer to a kind of western… every sentence is crafted and weighted with beauty, but it’s the intelligence and shaping sensibility with which the story is told that make it something special.
—The Times (London)
Rosoff never patronises her readership or succumbs to the desire to make goodness seem simple: her world is as morally ambiguous as it is deftly realised, and all the better for it.
—The Guardian
Another shift in emphasis for this always revelatory author as she illuminates the lives of the rural poor in the world of Hardy’s Wessex… it is not necessary to love horses, but you probably will after reading it.
—The Bookseller
An engaging, impeccably-written novel, it tells a feminist story of feisty independence, set against a rural, patriarchal background.
—Independent on Sunday
Pell’s tale is slim yet rich, like a flourless chocolate cake. The lyrical passages and the strange and wonderful characters will linger with you long after the covers are closed. You’ll be tempted to devour the book in one gulp, to read it in one sitting, when really, it should be savored.
—Tampa/St Petersburg Times
[...] is the author of How I live Now and What I Was, both favorite novellas in my book. Here is her website with a few reviews of this lovely book about a girl with a white horse and an [...]
Hey,
I have just finished reading The Bride’s Farewell and I think it’s absolutely brilliant, I’ve been waiting to read it for ages and was slightly jealous when my sister brought it first and read it before me! I always look forward to reading your books because I love the extremely unique characters you write about. I think Finn is my favourite because I love the mysteriousness that surrounds the character and I admire how, like Pell, Finn is completely individual and not afraid of being an outsider in the society they live in. Your books have also inspired my creative writing in A-level English this year which I really enjoyed doing so thank you Meg
I can’t wait to see what you come up with next!
Amy
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Great to hear from you, Amy, and really pleased you liked Bride’s Farewell. I’m just finishing up There Is No Dog now, so it should be out middle of next year. I know, it’s a long time to wait! I must get working on the next one now….. xxxmeg
I just finished the german version of “A bride’s farewell” (audiobook) last night and after I wrote my review an hour ago (you can see it on my website), I am happy that I can tell you how impressed I am. A great book that went straigt into the heart and the next step I do is order at least two of your other books. If you don’t mind that my english gets worse every day, I would love to do an interview with you if you’d like. And I can also try to translate my review.
Many greetings from your new fan in Germany!
Katrin