Twelve Months and a Day

People die. Love doesn�_Tt. �_~A bitter-sweet pang in my heart�_T Monique Roffey �_~A beautiful book. Insanely romantic and utterly convincing�_T Julie Myerson �_~A wonderful and inventive novel, sorrowful and hopeful in equal measure. It was a true pleasure to read�_T Miranda Cowley Heller �_~Louisa Young is the great chronicler of romantic love and the pain of its loss�_T Linda Grant �_~Heart-stoppingly romantic�_� A lovely, moving, ultimately hopeful read�_T Mirror �_~What a writer�_� so beautifully earthed in the everyday. Terrific�_T Elizabeth Buchan �_~A modern day Truly Madly Deeply�_� 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�_T Best magazine, Must-Reads �_~A skilfully calibrated love-after-death tale, it�_Ts a four course feast of hearts broken, hearts mended, of songs, laughter, old regrets and fresh desire, that demands a major film deal�_T Patrick Gale �_~A wonderful novel, charming and surprising, filled with loss and its triumphant opposites�_T Susie Boyt �_~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�_T Perspectives magazine Rasmus and Jay, RA3isA-n and Nico �_" two beautiful, ordinary love stories, cut short by death. Jay and Nico don�_Tt even believe in ghosts, yet they seem to be�_� still here. Still in love with Rasmus and RoA-sA-n. And maddeningly powerless. Both are incapable of leaving the living alone: Jay plays matchmaker, convinced that Rasmus and RA3isA-n can heal each other; Nico, plagued by jealousy, doesn�_Tt agree. Rasmus and RA3isA-n 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 do with it?