Falling in love allows for only two possible futures. In one, love is honoured. In the other, love is betrayed. ..Tracing apparently insignificant fault lines between Nick and Chloe - from first meeting, love and marriage to the point where the pressures of romantic expectation and sexual violence blow their lives apart - Glen Duncan's novel looks at lovers in the aftermath of emotional and physical brutality. ..Written with a relentless honesty and a powerful emotional intelligence, Love Remains is a gripping, mature and humane examination of our worst fears - and of our ability to survive when those fears become reality. ..'Compelling...ful of spiky insights and raw honesty.' Time Out ..Duncan takes you down paths of the heart you had forgotten existed and others you fear to tread.' Sunday Times ..'A book that leaves you emotionally sand-blasted, riven, entangled, doubled over.' Juice