A beautiful & solemn reflection in close third. Anna is the age her mother & sister were when they died, when she runs into a man on the street and falls in love at first
sight—but she’s been with her partner for 20 years.

A stunning novel where the only thing that happens is the churning over of leaving someone you love for someone you love.

Stunning prose, observations, and sentences

“She, who had no wish to be welcomed anywhere, just to carry on playing fast and loose with love!”

“How can you walk away from a man who puts himself in your hands? Who looks to you for the coming of spring? Who looks to you to release him from the woe that was his life? Who only half believes in his life, if that, but nevertheless, since meeting you, believes in it a wee bit more just the same?”

“Yet whenever she was overcome with desire like this at the sight of Thomas, she would lose the ability to compare, to see herself from the outside, and would live exclusively with her powerful emotions, pressed up against them, tucked up inside them, feeling their warmth and life like a cat ensconced in a basket with her litter of newborn kittens.”