In Love with Love

The Persistence and Joy of Romantic Fiction

By: Ella Risbridger

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Paperback | 11 November 2025 | Edition Number 1

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288 Pages

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21.5 x 13.5 x 2.5

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'This book is funny, wise, and joyfully obsessed with its subject'

MONICA HEISEY

'Endlessly witty, breathtakingly clever, a book you'll read in one sitting'

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'A joyful and brilliant book by a joyful and brilliant writer'

JESSICA STANLEY

Smart, funny and passionate: An ode to a beloved genre and a brilliantly insightful piece of cultural criticism

Cowboys and aliens, dukes and dancers, power dynamics, death and domesticity, vampires and veterans, tradwives and single dads and sisters and small-town politics, private jets and princes and horses, hopes and dreams and fears, and so, so much kissing: this is a love letter to romantic fiction, but it's also a book about creativity and creation and the job of art in this crazy old world.

Why do we read? Why do we write? What makes some books last forever, and others vanish from memory? What is the point of everything, anything, when everything - especially romantic love - is so fleeting in the grand scheme of things? How do we love when the world is falling apart? And what does it mean that love is the one subject of which we never seem to tire?

Part literary criticism, part investigation, total passion project, In Love with Love is a wild tour from the very beginnings of kissing in books through historic trends, favourite tropes, beloved friends and brand-new loves, from Jane Austen to Jasmine Guillory, Jilly Cooper to Georgette Heyer, from the depths of the ocean to the furthest reaches of the outer galaxy . . .

About the Author

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.

Industry Reviews

PRAISE FOR MIDNIGHT CHICKEN

A manual for living and a declaration of hope

Beautiful, life-affirming memoir with recipes ... The most talented British debut writer in a generation - Sunday Times

An utter treat

PRAISE FOR THE YEAR OF MIRACLES

An extraordinary, heartwarming book with gorgeous recipes. I loved it

Both a beautiful memoir and a hugely comforting cookbook

The Year of Miracles is just as wonderful. It's about loss, grief, love, hope and how cooking gets you through. It's like treasure - Sunday Times

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