{"product_id":"9780008519209","title":"Twelve Months and a Day: Breathtaking new fiction from the Costa Novel Award shortlisted author","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003ePeople die. Love doesn’t.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A bitter-sweet pang in my heart’ \u003cstrong\u003eMonique Roffey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A beautiful book. Insanely romantic and utterly convincing’ \u003cstrong\u003eJulie Myerson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A wonderful and inventive novel, sorrowful and hopeful in equal measure. It was a true pleasure to read’ \u003cstrong\u003eMiranda Cowley Heller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Louisa Young is the great chronicler of romantic love and the pain of its loss’ \u003cstrong\u003eLinda Grant\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Heart-stoppingly romantic… A lovely, moving, ultimately hopeful read’ \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMirror\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘What a writer… so beautifully earthed in the everyday. Terrific’ \u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Buchan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A modern day \u003cem\u003eTruly Madly Deeply\u003c\/em\u003e… 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’ \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBest\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, Must-Reads\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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’ \u003cstrong\u003ePatrick Gale\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A wonderful novel, charming and surprising, filled with loss and its triumphant opposites’ \u003cstrong\u003eSusie Boyt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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’ \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePerspectives\u003c\/em\u003e magazine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRasmus 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… \u003cem\u003estill here\u003c\/em\u003e. Still in love with Rasmus and Roísín. And maddeningly powerless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRasmus and Róisín are just trying to navigate their newly widowed lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut all four of them are thinking the same thing: what is love, after death? What is it for? And what are we to \u003cem\u003edo\u003c\/em\u003e with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Twelve Months and a Day, Louisa Young, the Sunday Times bestselling author, explores the complexities of love, life, and family after death. The narrative, filled with literary fiction and romance, delves into the lives of Rasmus and Roísín, who are navigating their newly widowed lives, and their deceased partners, Jay and Nico, who are still in love and maddeningly powerless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Gregg Olsen (Lying Next to Me), Clare Boyd (The Pretty One), Barbara Pym (Excellent Women), Ann Napolitano (Hello Beautiful), and Kristin Hannah (The Nightingale).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarperCollins 2022\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louisa Young, Read by Isabel Adomakoh Young","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889067282581,"sku":"9780008519209","price":35.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008519209.jpg?v=1776888345","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008519209","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}