“With this voyage into grief, longing, eros, and art, Sophie Ratcliffe offers us an intimate, beautifully curated exhibit of history, imagination, revelation, and consolation.” —Margo Jefferson, author of Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
“A book as much about time and technology as it is about love and grief, Loss, A Love Story is a feat of personal narrative. Sophie Ratcliffe crosses genre borders and traverses boundaries, both imagined and real, reminding us with each movement that a lived life is less a framed photograph than it is a moving train, ferrying us forward in space while also pulling us back in time. This book swept me away.” —Sarah Viren, author of To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories
“Sophie Ratcliffe brings a breathtaking honesty and a cool precision to her imaginative meditation on the lessons of Anna Karenina—it is a true tour de force which is both moving and exhilarating to read.” —Rosamund Bartlett, author of Tolstoy: A Life
"Ratcliffe’s creative summaries of her readings are like the performance of a dancer following the lead of another dancer, drawing on another artist’s imaginings for inspiration. Tolstoy and Trollope, whom she seems to find particularly compelling for their interest in—not to mention extraordinary depiction of—conflicted, complex women, partner her into her own complicated experiences with absence and death. In this way, the two greatest novelists of the second half of the 19th century (my opinion) give Ratcliffe a way to reflect on the two biggest losses of her life." —Los Angeles Review of Books
