Monique Roffey‘A bitter-sweet pang in my heart’

Julie Myerson‘A beautiful book. Insanely romantic and utterly convincing’

Miranda Cowley Heller‘A wonderful and inventive novel, sorrowful and hopeful in equal measure. It was a true pleasure to read’

Linda Grant‘Louisa Young is the great chronicler of romantic love and the pain of its loss’

Mirror‘Heart-stoppingly romantic… A lovely, moving, ultimately hopeful read’

Elizabeth Buchan‘What a writer… so beautifully earthed in the everyday. Terrific’

magazine, Must-ReadsBest‘A modern day … Rasmus and Roisin both lose their partners, but the ghosts of Nico and Jay stay, unable to leave their loved ones alone as the broken-hearted pair find comfort in each other. Beautifully written, this is a haunting love story – literally’Truly Madly Deeply

Patrick Gale‘A skilfully calibrated love-after-death tale, it’s a four course feast of hearts broken, hearts mended, of songs, laughter, old regrets and fresh desire, that demands a major film deal’

Susie Boyt‘A wonderful novel, charming and surprising, filled with loss and its triumphant opposites’

magazinePerspectives‘Thoughtful, philosophical and clever, it is also funny, and full of poetry, and powered by an unflagging and irresistible belief in the redemptive power of love’

Rasmus and Jay, Róisín and Nico – two beautiful, ordinary love stories, cut short by death. Jay and Nico don’t even believe in ghosts, yet they seem to be… . Still in love with Rasmus and Roísín. And maddeningly powerless.still here

Both are incapable of leaving the living alone: Jay plays matchmaker, convinced that Rasmus and Róisín can heal each other; Nico, plagued by jealousy, doesn’t agree.

Rasmus and Róisín are just trying to navigate their newly widowed lives.

But all four of them are thinking the same thing: what is love, after death? What is it for? And what are we to with it?do

People die. Love doesn’t.