This book! Swedish, confessional, shockingly honest about desire, love, loss. I've read it twice now and can't stop thinking about Carolina. Utterly compulsive

Marian Keyes

Painfully clear-sighted, unsentimental . . . It's about grief in all its raw messiness

Daily Mail

Brutally candid. The book's power lies in Setterwall's lacerating honesty. It's the most compelling book I've read in years

The Times

Quite simply one of the best bereavement memoirs I've read. It's impossible not to draw comparisons with Karl Ove Knausgaard, but there is a unique voice here, a style of disclosure all her own, incidentally beautifully translated. It's an emotional battering ram, I thought, and I absolutely loved it

Evening Standard

Heart-wrenching and unsettling

Rowan Coleman, internationally bestselling author

Moving, tender . . . Depicts the obsessive interiority of grief

Kirkus Reviews