In Love with Love

I am, appropriately, completely smitten with In Love With Love by Ella Risbridger, which is a literary and deeply heartfelt exploration of an under-appreciated genre. It is heaven from start to finish. Risbridger writes like the cleverest, funniest, most moving, most warm-hearted angel. Everyone’s getting it for Christmas – India Knight * The Times *There’s no one I trust on love more than Ella Risbridger. This book is funny, wise, and joyfully obsessed with its subject – Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, ActuallyEndlessly witty, breathtakingly clever, a book you’ll read in one sitting and then quote at dinner parties forever. Risbridger writes with a warmth and an expertise that is deeply earned yet lightly held – Caroline O’Donoghue, author of The Rachel IncidentThis passionate and profound love letter to the love story will make any romance reader’s heart beat a little faster – Sarra Manning * Red Magazine *The love letter the genre deserves – Mhairi McFarlane, author of Cover StoryA joyful and brilliant book by a joyful and brilliant writer. I’m in love with Ella Risbridger’s mind! – Jessica Stanley, author of Consider Yourself KissedThis is a cosy, clever treat of a book! To use Ella’s words, it gave me a “warm buttered toast” feeling. I shall continue to read silly novels by lady novelists on repeat. Imagine listening to someone at a dinner party tell you about the amazing book they just read. This is that book – Emma Gannon, author of OLIVEClever, comforting, sharp and funny, In Love with Love is as enjoyable and compelling as the most satisfying romance - the happiest coupling of subject and author – Lisa Owens, author of Not WorkingRisbridger writes about the romance novel with the care and attention of a romantic hero. This book has the intimacy of a midnight conversation with a close friend and the thrill and discovery of a new lover. I look forward to pressing it into many hands in the future – Sarvat Hasin, author of The Giant DarkI have such a big crush on this book! Fascinating, fun and flirty - just how I like my romances. It’s so delightful to have someone as passionate and smart as Risbridger celebrating the belittled and beloved world of romance novels. To take silliness seriously is no small feat, and In Love with Love does it with zest and wonder – Billy Lindon, author of Double BookedWhat an utter delight for readers - and writers - of love stories. To read this is to throw the windows of your soul right open - to nod along, cheer, dance, and yearn for more. I swallowed this book whole. Full of warmth and - you guessed it, love - this is an astute, thoughtful and literary exploration of a subject that is often regarded as the opposite; there’s nobody I’d rather read on matters of the heart, and this book covers ALL of those matters. It’ll stay on my “books on writing” shelf forevermore, underlined and dog-eared and beloved, just like the stories she writes about. Long live kissing books, and all hail Ella – CLAIRE DAVERLEY, author of Talking at Night

Ella Risbridger is a writer and editor, whose cookbooks, anthologies, children’s books include The Year of Miracles, Set Me on Fire and The Secret Detectives. Midnight Chicken: & other recipes worth living for was Sunday Times Book of the Year 2019, Guild of Food Writers General Cookbook of the Year, and an Amazon bestseller in both hardback and paperback. She likes poems, cats and gardens.