So heartbreaking and funny and beautiful and wise an extraordinary book * Richard Osman * The most moving book Ive ever read heart-breaking but also heart-warming. * Jacqueline Wilson * A novel anyone will take to heart. A simple yet effective meditation on mortality, love and care... Lisa Ridzéns debut demonstrates how sometimes the simplest storytelling can be the most effective. Anyone anywhere who has worried for a crumbling parent, or worried about the crumble in themselves, or simply worried that their dog understood them better than their family, will identify with Ridzéns novel. * Patrick Gale, Guardian * A tender tale about ageing, our own and others, and the quiet brutality of love. About what being a man is, and what being a human is, about fathers and sons and fathers and dogs. Its really a book for anyone whos had to say goodbye. The kind of book you give to someone when youre really trying to say Ive been thinking about you but dont know how. * Fredrik Backman, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove * This empathetic Swedish bestseller is a poignant, quietly devastating meditation on old age. * Mail on Sunday * This profoundly moving novel is sure to melt you into tears faster than a Cornetto in the sunshine ... Poignant, beautifully written and guaranteed to spark introspection. * Woman & Home * Through lucid, observant writing, Ridzén conveys the lack of autonomy allowed to elderly people in a heartfelt novel that gives voice to a sensitively realised old man. * Irish Times * Meditations on memory and fatherhood underpin this tender tale about a man defending his right to live independently. * Financial Times * Its one of those youll laugh, youll cry, youll want to buy twenty copies and give them to everyone you love books. * New Yorker * There are not many novels that I want to tell you that you should read, but this is one of them. It is a novel about family, how our history shapes our present, and the many different forms that love can take. This is a beautiful and gentle novel about an honest and relatable man who simply wants to live quietly with his dog, and I wont ever forget it. * NB Magazine *
