The release date for the English version of 'Love Stories' by
Trent Dalton is Oct 2021. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The world's most beloved author in Australia, Trent Dalton, goes out into the world and says, 'Can you kindly tell me a love story?'
A blind man longs to see his thirty-year wife's face. A traveling priest and a divorced mother are secretly in love. A widower discovers, by miracle, a three-minute film that his late wife had shot before she passed away. In a forest, a tree-lopper's heart sinks. A busy mother considers removing her late husband's pictures off the refrigerator. A girl writes the man she loves her final letter and lights it ablaze. An elderly hunk feels guilty about the one who escaped. A dying patient is assisted in having a conversation with the angel by her bedside by a palliative care nurse. A well-known scientist who is 100 years old muses over the one major riddle in life that he has never been able to answer: "What is love?"
countless tales. Personal narratives. Stories about love.
Best-selling author and esteemed Australian journalist Trent Dalton spent two months in 2021 pounding city pavements, talking to people from all walks of life, and asking them one straightforward question: "Can you please tell me a love story?" Dalton's actions were motivated by a personal moment of profound love and generosity. He spent a fortnight at a workstation adorned with a sky-blue Olivetti typewriter from the 1960s, situated on the busy intersection of Adelaide and Albert streets in Brisbane. The sign read, "Sentimental writer collecting love stories." Are you willing to share yours?
Love anecdotes, which includes anecdotes, observations, and musings on couples in parks, individuals in cemeteries, hospital wards, pubs, and bingo halls, and newlyweds leaving registry offices, is the outcome. It is a warm, insightful, sad, amusing, and emotional book about love in all its guises. There will be tales of people who fell in love, fell out of love, and refused to let go of the people they loved. Reminiscences of Trent's own memorable times and the people whose love tales have shaped him into the man and author he is today will also be interwoven throughout.
A poignant, profound, witty, sage, and tingling ode to the one thing we will never fully comprehend and the only thing we will ever truly need: love.