Kimberly Campanello

Use the Words You Have is one of those rare books that not only sparks excitement for the talent on show, but revives a passion for the very possibilities of the medium itself. The author and her publisher display innovation, and in an environment of brazen technological advancement, an award-winning production company expanding its print offerings, of all things, feels like a heartening move. Amidst feverish publicity campaigns vying for the book of the summer, Campanello has discreetly slid a masterpiece into the mix. For admirers of Annie Ernaux and André Aciman or indeed any avowed lover of language, if you read one debut this season, make it Campanello’s. —Laura Cassidy, Irish Examiner

Use the Words You Have is a testament to language’s curious duality: it constrains, it limits, but it also liberates by offering new ways to communicate, connect and love. —Bruce Omar Yates, The London Magazine

‘Campanello’s abiding interest in language transforms this into a moving study of both literary form and desire —Katie Tobin, Times Literary Supplement'

As K navigates the experience of falling in love in a foreign tongue, Campanello meditates on how we can break language barriers and, eventually, language itself. Use the Words You Have is effervescent, unfurling like a prose poem.' —Emily Formstone, The Irish Times

‘Composed in a delicate, aching space between nostalgia and desire, between the past and eternity, Use the Words You Have shimmers like light on a sea recollected across decades.’ —Rob Doyle‘

A moving meditation on the capacity of language and love to shape us… saturated in sun and salt water, drenched in heat and longing.’ —Jessica Andrews

‘Eroticism here is as much about discovering another’s body as it is about discovering the body through language. It’s Rimbaud, it’s Hélène Cixous, even a touch of Claudia Durastanti. But Campanello is entirely her own here.’ —Jason Allen-Paisant