A collection of short stories about love (2017)
Simon & Schuster Australia | 256 pages | ISBN 9781925533286 | March 2017
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Written in sparkling, nuanced prose, Sue Wolf’s stories capture the poignant, shared experiences of connection, devotion, obsession and rejection.
A woman risks everything for a dangerous friendship. Shyness brings two people together and then shyness breaks them apart. A daughter tries to understand why her father abandoned her, and a vengeful lover chooses between a lie and compassion. Someone yearning for a way to belong learns to look in muddy waters, and a blinded dancer sees through her demons at last. A pilgrim seeking transformation in Florence finally realises how to live, and a girl finds a way to overcome her trauma – but a critic tries to maul her after death.
Sharply knowing, wryly humorous and achingly sad, Do You Love Me or What? speaks to the everyday truths of what it means to love, and to be loved
Above: actress Annie Byron at Gleebooks, Sydney
Praise from her fellow authors
‘I’d just decided to do no more cover quotes – they come in thick and fast and cross-hatch my reading for days – when Sue’s book landed. I love Sue’s work, so naturally I had a quick look. Two hours later I had to put her book down to meet some other demands on my time, my decision to do no more cover quotes utterly reversed!
‘These stories are so achingly intimate, so immediately known, so emotionally satisfying and moving, and written in such luminously simple prose that it’s impossible not to be enthralled at once and lost for hours in the joy of reading. What a gift to the hungry reader!’
– Alex Miller: Conditions of Faith, Lovesong, The Ancestor Game, Journey to the Stone Country, Coal Creek, etc
‘Delicately written, sensitively observed, this is a book that explodes the notion of romantic love into a thousand pieces and eight elegant short stories.’
–A lana Valentine: Parramatta Girls, Run Rabbits Run, Letters to Lind, Ear to the Edge of Time, Barefoot Divas etc.
Newton Review of Books review here