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|title=Four New Words for Love

|author=Michael Cannon

|publisher=Freight Books

|date=August 2013

|summary=Despite a stunning start, Michael Cannon's ''Four New Words for Love'' is let down by stylistic errors and a rushed conclusion. As such, some potentially unforgettable characters are sacrificed to the requirements of plot.

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Christopher meets Gina on Waterloo Bridge. He is newly widowed, she is newly homeless; he's an elderly Londoner, she's a young Glaswegian. It is a defining event in both their lives, but that only becomes clear in the future. Of pressing concern in the present is the rather rude policeman looking to move Gina on. The situation is nearing crisis. Sensing her desperation, Christopher impulsively asks her to come home with him, a proposal she tentatively accepts. Yet it is this one benevolent act that gives birth to an odd and platonic friendship, a relationship based on silences and lacunas, and one which Michael Cannon's fourth novel, ''Four New Words for Love'', looks to delicately unravel.