''Extraordinary. It is about death, but I can think of few books which have such life. It shows us what love is.'' Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing With Feathers and Lanny
''There is no one quite like Naja Marie Aidt'' Valeria Luiselli
''Devastating, angry, challenging, fragmented and filled with the beautiful hope that the love we have for people continues into the world even after they''re gone.'' Culturefly
''Fragmented, poetic, informative and truthful, Aidt faces the greatest loss we can ever know with all the force of great elegy writers like Anne Carson and Denise Riley. Essential.'' Polly Clark, author of Larchfield and Tiger
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"I raise my glass to my eldest son. His pregnant wife and daughter are sleeping above us. Outside, the March evening is cold and clear. ''To life!'' I say as the glasses clink with a delicate and pleasing sound. My mother says something t
