Overspill, Charlotte Paradise
Sara meets Miles and feels like, for the first time, a happy relationship might just be possible. Everything feels easy with him. He’s patient with her; he adores her. And yet, how will this new relationship stand the test of time and more crucially, the test of trauma?
Love and trauma are the two halves of this novel and the delicacy and intimacy they are treated with is set to blow readers away. This is delicate and beautiful love in its purest form and it’s a joy to read. Overspill really asks us to hear and understand each other and meet us where we’re at. It will also ask you to question society’s obsession with sexual intimacy in relationships and the outward expectations that come from this.
Reading Overspill is the equivalent of watching people fall in love messily and in slow motion. It’s slow and meaningful and truly tender. Readers will feel the warmth spreading through them slowly, and it certainly takes a special kind of writing to do that – it’s particularly impressive from a debut author.
But Overspill isn’t a novel set for the romance genre, it’s stood firmly in the literary fiction zone with deep, deep characters and the trauma they’ve been through. The dark areas are handled so delicately, in the same manner that the love is, and it’s absolutely written with care.
Overspill is a groundbreaking debut and one that readers will love to share between friends.
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