REVIEWS & AWARDS

Awards
The National Best Books 2008 Awards, Finalist – Fiction & Literature: General Fiction

Reviews
“Lee Doyle’s prose is a warm, swift wind that sweeps away the haze of everyday life to offer a startlingly clear view of that greatest mystery, the human heart.”
— Lewis Buzbee, author of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

“The Love We All Wait For is world-weary and unsentimental as only a seventeen-year-old can be. I loved this book from start to finish. Crisp, vivid, perfect.” 
— Kathi Kamen Goldmark, author of And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You

“Lee Doyle has written a lovely, affecting coming-of-age novel of one girl’s transformation in the face of sadness and loss.”
— Marilyn Dahl, Shelf-Awareness
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“Doyle has written a moving story of a girl with a lot of sense and a lot of heart struggling to give up the comfort of childhood to find her place in the world.”
— Sandy Schmit, School Library Journal
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“For many, the novel’s romp through life in the 1970s will resonate, including a psychedelic scene in San Francisco’s Haight. But I was drawn most to the love between Sheila and her sister, Annie.”
— Jennifer Gennari, Novato Advance
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“There was no Dorothy tapping her ruby-slippered feet and yearning for home at the end of this book, but when I closed it, that was the image that popped into my mind.”
— Judy Romanowich Smith, Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul
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“Coming-of-age story has romantic twist”
— Robert Welch, The Californian
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“Novelist bases new book on Gonzales”
— Laureen Diephof, Gonzales Tribune
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