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The Language Laundry is delighted to announce the publication of Love You Madly, a novel co-authored by Daisy Jones and Lucinda Hooley – now available in print and electronic formats.

About the authors

Only 18 years ago!

Daisy Jones

Journalist, author, poet and illustrator. She covered the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for The Star, was a senior Education writer for Business Day, and her first cookbook, Star Fish, won the Sunday Times and Radio 702 awards. She lives in Cape Town with her family.

Lucinda Hooley

Creative writer and content editor, working mostly in corporate marketing and communication. She’s also a Vita-award-winning theatre and television actress. She lives with her partner on a farm in the Free State.

Praise for Love You Madly

An engrossing read – flowing and funny and tender, chatty and lyrical. It casts a very shrewd eye on young love, social foibles, and getting through a certain time of life. It brought back a million memories.
Henrietta Rose-Innes

A novel that is bursting with colour, charm, humour and heart. Nostalgic and immediate, a heady evocation of young adulthood in the nineties.
Anna Hug

The characters carry the story along in walloping style. I found myself laughing with them (often) and teary with them too (often). I’m so sad that I had to turn that last page.
Maire Fisher

The prose is funny, heartbreaking and luminous. It gives you fizzing in the veins and makes you want to be in love. I devoured the book in almost one sitting. A friend was visiting and kept saying: ‘You can put that down now.’ I couldn’t.
Vanessa Hilton-Barber

You have written a truly wonderful novel.
Jeremy Boraine

It highlights the human struggle. We are all battling something, and our struggles are all very real.
Trudy Mofutsanyana

I had such a good read. It’s a very intelligent book, really high-quality writing, and an awesome story … funny, emotional, human.
Bieke van Aggelen

The book surfaces a lot of personal things. These last three days, I have been 20 again. I could picture absolutely everything. The whole time I was reading, I was watching the remaining pages getting fewer and wishing they weren’t.
Jenny Wade

This book is magnificent! My heart contracts and sings ad flies…
Karin van der Laag

Orders

Print version also available at:

  • Love Books, Johannesburg
  • Clarke’s Bookshop, Cape Town
  • Exclusive Books, Cavendish Square
  • Kalk Bay Books, Cape Town
  • The Book Lounge, Cape Town
  • Bibliophile, Clarens
  • Liberty Books, Grabouw
  • The Orange Apple, Fouriesburg
  • Wordsworth Books (Longbeach Mall, Sea Point, Garden Route Mall, Harbour Bay, Steenberg, Dean Street)

Delivery options:

Local deliveries of printed books will be made to a PEP or Shoe City store near you.

  • – You will be asked to select one of these options when ordering a printed copy of the book:
    3 – 6 business days (excl weekends and public holidays): R100.00
  • 7 – 10 business days (excl weekends and public holidays): R60.00
  • – Once the book has been dispatched, you will be notified by SMS
  • – Once the book has been delivered, you will again be notified by SMS. to collect wihin 14 days

To order printed copies for international delivery.

  • – Please email: lucinda.hooley@gmail.com clearly stating your name and the delivery address
  • – You will then receive a bespoke quote via email
  • – Once you have accepted the quote via email, you will receive an invoice via Payfast
  • – Once you have paid the Payfast invoice (using Visa or Mastercard credit card), your book/s will be dispatched and you will receive the tracking details

Enquiries

Daisy Jones

daisymedia@gmail.com 

Lucinda Hooley

lucinda.hooley@gmail.com