Titles in This Set:
Careless
Girls
Love Me, Love Me Not
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9789124024116
Overview:
Three intimate novels from Kirsty Capes, gathered in one beautifully packaged paperback set. Careless, Girls, and Love Me, Love Me Not bring readers into vivid worlds where care, memory, and identity collide with everyday desire and resilience. Careless follows a young woman negotiating love and belonging within the folds of a challenging care system, navigating loyalties and the price of truth. Girls follows Mattie and Nora as they trace their mother Ingrid Olssens lasting artistic legacy, while confronting painful memories and the power of forgiveness. Love Me, Love Me Not centers on Lucy Banbury, whose orderly life shatters when she discovers she is adopted, forcing her to confront hidden truths behind a polished surface. Capes writes with honesty, wit, and emotional intelligence, inviting readers to lean into difficult truths and emerge with insight and empathy. This triple-set is perfect for fans of contemporary literary fiction seeking bold character work, clear writing, and lasting emotional impact.
What Makes This Collection Special:
What ties Careless, Girls, and Love Me, Love Me Not together is Capess unflinching focus on care, kinship, and the complexities of love. The collection offers a complete reading arc: a probe into the care experience and intimate relationships in Careless; a meditation on legacy, memory, and reconciliation in Girls; and a piercing examination of identity, secrecy, and belonging in Love Me, Love Me Not. Readers can binge the trio for a cohesive, immersive experience or savor them as a thoughtfully linked journey through Capess evolving voice. The sets cohesiveness makes it a striking shelf centerpiece, an ideal gift for book lovers who crave thoughtful, boundary-pushing storytelling, and a compelling entry point into a modern British literary voice.
Books Included in This Collection:
Careless
Careless follows a young woman navigating the fraught terrain of care, affection, and truth. Faced with the question of whether to confide in a social worker, a foster mother, or a former partner, she discovers that love rarely comes without conditions. The story examines what belonging costs when life remains tangled in systems and loyalties, and how honesty can become a pathway to real connection. The central voice is intimate, unguarded, and revealing, inviting readers to reflect on the cost of care and the courage it takes to tell the truth.
Girls
Girls centers on Mattie and Nora as they grapple with the complicated legacy of their mother, Ingrid Olssen, and the public life her art created. In their quest to fulfil her final wishes, they confront wounds from the past and question how much of a persons legacy belongs to the living. As they uncover hidden truths and reassemble their family ties, the sisters learn that love, memory, and forgiveness can be both tender and painful in equal measure. This novel blends art-world detail with raw emotional honesty to create a moving, unforgettable read.
Love Me, Love Me Not
Love Me, Love Me Not follows Lucy Banbury, a woman whose orderly, on-paper perfection begins to crack when she learns she was adopted. With secrets threatening to spill, she must navigate how much of herself shes willing to reveal while keeping up appearances. As relationships strain and truths surface, Lucys self-conception is peeled back to reveal vulnerabilities many readers will recognize. The book probes identity, trust, and the pressure to present a flawless life, delivering a finely tuned blend of suspense, warmth, and psychological insight.
Who This Set Is Perfect For:
This collection is ideal for adult readers who enjoy character-driven contemporary fiction with emotional depth, sharp wit, and sensitive storytelling. Its a superb choice for fans of UK literary fiction exploring care, family dynamics, and personal reinvention. Perfect for book clubs seeking rich discussion, gifting to readers who love immersive, thought-provoking narratives, and anyone building a complete reading journey from a single author. If you loved probing novels about relationships and resilience, this three-book set is a natural fit for your shelves and your reading plan.
Key Benefits:
- A complete Kirsty Capes reading experience in one value-packed paperback set.
- Three distinct novels that share a compassionate, insightful look at care, identity, and family.
- Engaging, character-focused storytelling with emotional resonance and occasional wit.
- Ideal for book clubs, gifting, and shelf display with cohesive design and tone.
- Opportunity to explore Capess evolving voice across contemporary British fiction.
- Durable paperback format, ready for long-term reading comfort and collection value.
About the Author:
Kirsty Capes works in marketing and lives in Slough with her golden retriever, Doug. She holds a PhD from Brunel University London, where her research examined representations of the care experience in contemporary British fiction. Capess debut novel, Careless, gained recognition by being longlisted for the Womens Prize in 2022, and Girls marks the progression of her career as a prominent voice in contemporary literary fiction. Her writing blends acute social insight with intimate character portraits, earning readers who value honesty, nuance, and emotional clarity. This collection showcases her distinctive approach to stories that linger long after the last page.
Why Youll Love This Set:
Owning the complete three-book collection offers a richer, more immersive experience of Capess worldwhere care, memory, and identity are explored with warmth and honesty. The set provides a seamless reading journey, ideal for readers who prefer to lose themselves in a single authors evolving style. It also makes a thoughtful gift for readers who enjoy serious, character-driven fiction with broad emotional appeal, discussion-worthy themes, and a stylish, cohesive packaging that looks as good on display as it reads.
Please Note: The individual books included in this listing will be dispatched as per the original UK ISBN and UK edition cover image shown in the image.
