Powerful and intense , O'Neill is one of our most uncompromising authors. - John BoyneA real, raw story of how a woman's yearning for a potent relationship can poison happiness but help her discover the shadowy parts of herself. Louise O'Neill will once again connect to the secret, intimate places of readers' minds and lives - Cecelia AhernWith a pen sharp as needles, the author unpicks the kind of obsessive love to which nobody is immune: I would challenge any reader to turn the final page without having flushed, at least once, in recognition. Her gaze is unflinching but never cruel; we are invited to examine, but never judge. O'Neill is a vital and necessary presence in contemporary literature, and we are lucky to have her. - Sarah PerryA bold, uncompromising depiction of obsessive love. Reinvents the template for the female protagonist. - Marian Keyes' Superb pockets of relatable truths .

one of Ireland's most astute social observers' - Irish Independent' Breaks another boundary that women's fiction rarely approaches' - Irish Times Intelligent , compelling, with considerable psychological depth - Daily MailHonest and poignant, Almost Love tells a story of love, of obsession and of reckoning with the common saying that 'if it doesn't hurt, it's not love - Elle.