LoveReading Says
October 2016 Debut of the Month.
An edgy, refreshing, and quirky read, one that slides into, then excites and challenges your consciousness. There’s something about 26 year old Julia Greenfield, something that consumes her, makes her view the world in a different way, can she take control of and start to live her life to the full? Julia tells her tale with frank provocative honesty, her observations are astute, yet there is an almost dreamlike quality at times. Emma Rathbone has created a fascinating character in Julia, I changed my mind about her as I got to know her, I winced, I gasped, I smiled, and by the end I had grown to love her. With beautiful descriptive detailing, subtle compassion, and piercing intensity, ’Losing It’ is a stimulating and rather wonderful read. ~ Liz Robinson
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Emma Rathbone Press Reviews
'A charming, truthful story about a lovably imperfect young woman...a witty and insightful novel about the mysteries of human connection.' -Maggie Shipstead, author of Seating Arrangements and Astonish Me
'Every single page of Emma Rathbone's Losing It contains a line so funny, so awkward, so perfect, that you do not want this momentous summer to end. Rathbone's writing feels effortless, but it detonates in such wonderful ways. An amazing book.' - Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang
'Emma Rathbone has the wisdom to understand that we are all the protagonists of our own stories, and the sense of humour to recognise the absurdity of that fact...Her Julia Greenfield is entirely imperfect and completely sympathetic, and Losing It is a bright gem of a novel.' - Lauren Fox, author of Days of Awe and Friends Like Us
'A candid yet funny take on just what desire and love mean.' - The Millions, The Most Anticipated Books of 2016
'Rathbone reliably wrings the humour out of this situation, but more impressively, she manages to evoke its poignancy... Amusing but also smart about people and unexpectedly sweet.' - Kirkus
'A voice that is at once heartbreaking and hilarious, and startlingly true.' -Lydia Peelle
About Emma Rathbone
Emma Rathbone is the author of the novel The Patterns of Paper Monsters. She is the recipient of a Christopher Isherwood Grant in Fiction, and her work can also be seen in the Virginia Quarterly Review and on newyorker.com. A graduate of the University of Virginia Creative Writing Program, Rathbone lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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