Shortlisted for Creative Scotland Book of the Year Award 2010, I Love You, Goodbye brilliantly captures the exhilaration, confusion and frustration of relationships. Tracking the interconnected lives of four characters living in a small Scottish village, Rogerson explores the different ways in which people, of various backgrounds, cultures and ages, approach love. Skillfully entwining observations of life in the Scottish Highlands, examinations of love in its various stages, and characterization that draws the reader in from the very first page, this is a novel that, though set in the most specific of locations, strives to answer a universal question: what is love?
Reviews
Rogerson is a master of fresh and sparky writing. A spirited and inventive novel by a Scots writer of considerable gifts.
The Guardian
Captured me from the first…a hugely accomplished novel.
Louise Welsh
Rogerson’s prose is impressive and deceptively powerful, making this a subtle and insightful read.
The Big Issue
A great read…it’s sexy, funny, full of laconic and tender insights into the wonderful mess that people make of their relationships, and into that elusive prey we call love.
Tim Pears
A good writer, who thinks properly about the world.
The Scotsman
What is love? Love is the relationship that will develop between you and this quirky, wise, and fascinating novel. Your heart will pang with recognition again & again as Rogerson explores the foibles that make relationships so beautiful and so heartbreaking. An engaging, insightful and witty novel that resonates with a profound emotional intelligence.
Kevin MacNeil
Her style is easy and graceful, but her spiky humour takes most of the honours in this tale of kiss and don’t tell.
Scottish Review of Books
 | Cynthia RogersonCynthia Rogerson’s prize-winning fiction includes If I Touched the Earth (Black & White 2013), a novel which follows a mother during the first year after her son dies. Set in the Scottish Highlands, it also explores the ways in which we are all affected, directly and indirectly, when someone dies unexpectedly. While a romance winds its way throughout the narrative, the themes are essentially bleak – alienation, loneliness and identity. Alan Bissett says of this novel: “Brilliant. Rogerson is Scotland’s very own Anne Tyler.” |
