here<\/a><\/p>\nPre-publication endorsements for\u00a0On This Spot Fell One Tear of Love<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u2018Tender, thoughtful, beautifully written, this is a wonderful and gentle memoir about childhood and class, loss and memory – I loved it.\u2019 Kate Mosse<\/p>\n
‘The most beautiful love story… exquisitely written. There is brilliant humour within its pages, yet at the same time, it’s utterly devastating. I adored every single page, and it is, quite simply, one of the most beautiful memoirs I have ever read. Reading it felt like sitting with a friend and having a truly wonderful conversation.’ Joanna Cannon<\/p>\n
‘What a brave book, haunting, visceral and beautifully written – it will surely stir everyone’s feelings around family and the hazy depths of the lives behind us.’ DBC Pierre<\/p>\n
‘I loved this self-respecting and dignified memoir, especially in its warmth and humour. The writing has a great quality of sanity; it’s also a social history of demonstrable general interest.’ Rachel Cusk<\/p>\n
\u2018A mystery, a love letter, a family history, this astonishing memoir is written with clear eyed compassion and humour, a tribute to two people caught in the conventions of the time and a lesson in forgiveness and understanding. A wonderful book by a great writer.\u2019 Kit de Waal<\/p>\n
\u2018Beautiful and oddly thrilling: a heartfelt meditation on something we all know but rarely talk about – the fact that people, even those closest to us, are ultimately unknowable, that our pasts make strangers of us all. I was very moved and stayed up late into the night to finish it.’ Julie Myerson<\/p>\n
‘Tender and clear-eyed, Doughty opens the Pandora\u2019s box of 1950s England, class, family and loss and forbidden love and \u2014 oh god \u2014 that great mysterious secret: our parents before us. It will make you laugh and make you cry.’ Louisa Young<\/p>\n
\u2018I relished reading this loving, generous and unflinching recollection of the life cycle of a suburban family and the secrets the parents hid from their children. It is quietly elegant and deeply reflective.\u2019
\nBernardine Evaristo<\/p>\n
\u2018So moving, intimate, and beautifully observed about parents, secret revelations, love, death, illness and dementia.\u2019 Arifa Akbar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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