Talking at Night

A beautifully observed, tender love story with characters you really care about...a bit like Normal People . I devoured it

A beautifully observed, tender love story with characters you really care about...a bit like Normal People . I devoured it

Tender and true, this is a stunning debut with lyrical and emotional writing that reminded me at times of Sally Rooney

With shades of Sally Rooney, this is a lyrical, tender love story

Deeply romantic . . . Reminded me of just how all-consuming and transformative first love can be. The more I read, the more I was completely immersed in the story of Rosie and Will and how life, and tragedy, conspire to keep them apart

A passionate, page-turning debut

Quietly devastating, entirely beautiful, bruising and hopeful. In a world of compromise, Claire Daverley has created a perfect thing. Talking at Night takes its place amongst my all time favourites. I implore you to read it. I'll never forget it

Talking at Night is a masterful and authentic depiction of true love in all its messy, complicated and gut-wrenching glory. Will and Rosie are the perfect, imperfect star-crossed lovers - their story had me enthralled from the start

Spellbinding, beautiful, lyrical and tender, Talking at Night is a dazzling debut. I loved every word and was left longing for more

So beautifully written and the way Daverley brings each character to life is so impressive. Everyone should read this book

A stunning debut about the complicated nature of love . Like the very best of Sally Rooney with added lashings of heart - I loved it . Claire Daverley has become an automatic must-read for me. A captivating, nuanced and beautiful debut.

Claire Daverley was born in 1991 and has been writing stories ever since she was six years old, inspired by art and film and her many trips to the library. After graduating with a degree in Fine Art from The University of Oxford, she began a career in publishing, writing about books by day but penning her own by night, on trains, and in the light of the early mornings. She has spent most of her life in Hertfordshire, but now lives in Scotland with her husband and spaniel.

Her debut novel, Talking at Night , has sold in twenty-two languages to date.