La fine della solitudine

A well written story affords us the opportunity to feel what the characters are feeling even if their experience is not one that is totally familiar. I know what grief feels like over losing loved ones, but I don’t know what it’s like as a child to lose both parents and carry that grief throughout y Leggi tutto

‘there were things i couldnt say; i could only write them. because when i spoke, i thought; and when i wrote, i felt.’ what a surprise this book is. the kind of quiet surprise that ever so quietly draws closer to you, step by step, until its staring right back at you, making you realise and say, Leggi tutto

The book opens with the line: I’ve known Death a long time, but now Death knows me. Jules wakes in a hospital bed - he’s been in an accident, and he’s pretty beaten up. He tries to piece it together: a motorcycle accident, but there’s something before that, something his mind doesn’t want to reca Leggi tutto

This was a very moving account of three siblings from Munich, Germany who tragically lost their parents in a car accident. The story is told from the perspective of the youngest son, Jules. As the story begins, a now adult Jules wakes up in hospital realizing he has survived a motorcycle accident. B Leggi tutto