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Of Love and Desire

By: Louis de Bernières
Narrated by: Louis de Bernières
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Publisher's Summary

Of Love and Desire is a rich collection of love poems written over a lifetime, capturing its many forms: from rapture, infatuation and urgency to sorrow, heartache and disillusion. Poetry was de Bernières' first and greatest literary love, a passion evident in the musicality and emotion of his poems, which are full of stories and the truth of lived experience.

©2016 Louis de Bernières (P)2016 W F Howes Ltd

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"There are poems in this collection that certainly bear comparison with the great.... Here is lost love and the sadness of memory transformed into words that glitter - mined like jewels from the heart." ( Daily Mail)

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