Love in exileShon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic love: the secret fear of her own unworthiness penetrated every aspect and corner of her life. It was a fear that would erupt in destructive, counterfeit versions of the real love she craved: addictions and short lived romances that were either euphoric and fantastical, or excruciatingly painful and unhinged, often both. Faye's experience of the world as a

and his paper locked away

often surprising

In this book she returns to the cliff-paths of her childhood

now I'm all set

the powerful repeatedly chose to use their power not in the interests of the powerless but to serve themselves or to protect the organisation to which they belonged

Only then will they discover who they truly are

The most coveted

Love blooms in the darkest days

we could in fact find her today

Rome and on Elba

Thinking about the precise dancing of planets

covers the story from their early 1960s formation