Use the Words You Have (Pre-order)

A literary romance like no other – Kimberly Campanello’s debut novel unfurls over a hot Breton summer as American student K embarks on a love affair with a local.

Barred from using English by their French programme, the Americans’ identities flicker and fade. Yet for K this dissolution opens space for profound transformation.

Heady and poetic, erotic and intelligent, this is a coming-of-age tale that reveals how coming-of-age – at its pinnacle – means coming alive. Alive to touch and taste, pleasure and ecstasy.

To the sea, the sun and eternity.

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Publication date: June 23

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Praise for Use the Words You Have... 

‘A moving meditation on the capacity of language and love to shape us… saturated in sun and salt water, drenched in heat and longing.’ —Jessica Andrews, author of Milk Teeth

‘Eroticism here is as much about discovering another’s body as it is about discovering the body through language. It’s Rimbaud, it’s Hélène Cixous, even a touch of Claudia Durastanti. But Campanello is entirely her own here.’—Jason Allen-Paisant, author of The Possibility of Tenderness

‘It’s been a complete pleasure to read this… The restraint, clarity and precision of the writing is faultless.’—Joanna Walsh, author of Worlds from the Word’s End

‘Composed in a delicate, aching space between nostalgia and desire, between the past and eternity, Use the Words You Have shimmers like light on a sea recollected across decades.’—Rob Doyle, author of Here Are the Young Men

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Product Photography by Marloes Haarmans 

Original Cover Artwork by Nanténé Traoré

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