A poignant, modern love story about a young widow and widower and the two ghosts that bring them together because although love changes form, it never dies.
“Heart-stoppingly romantic.”—The Express (UK)
Two couples. Four unfinished lives. A love that transcends space and time.
Rasmus and Jay, Róisín and Nico: two couples, strangers to each other. Two beautiful, ordinary love stories, cut short. Both in their thirties and too young to be widowed, Róisín swears she still feels Nico beside her in bed and Rasmus hears Jay as he writes songs at the piano.
Jay and Nico don’t even believe in ghosts, yet here they still are. Still in love with Rasmus and Róisín. And maddeningly powerless. Until Jay has an idea that Nico wants no part of—bringing Róisín and Rasmus together. It’s crazy enough that it just might work, but playing matchmaker to the living is no easy feat and one that will require all four of them to discover the meaning of love after loss, and the importance of fighting for happiness against all odds.
Moving and thought-provoking, playful and bittersweet, Twelve Months and a Day asks what is love? And what are we to do with it?
Genre: Literary Fiction
“Heart-stoppingly romantic.”—The Express (UK)
Two couples. Four unfinished lives. A love that transcends space and time.
Rasmus and Jay, Róisín and Nico: two couples, strangers to each other. Two beautiful, ordinary love stories, cut short. Both in their thirties and too young to be widowed, Róisín swears she still feels Nico beside her in bed and Rasmus hears Jay as he writes songs at the piano.
Jay and Nico don’t even believe in ghosts, yet here they still are. Still in love with Rasmus and Róisín. And maddeningly powerless. Until Jay has an idea that Nico wants no part of—bringing Róisín and Rasmus together. It’s crazy enough that it just might work, but playing matchmaker to the living is no easy feat and one that will require all four of them to discover the meaning of love after loss, and the importance of fighting for happiness against all odds.
Moving and thought-provoking, playful and bittersweet, Twelve Months and a Day asks what is love? And what are we to do with it?
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"A wonderful novel, charming and surprising, filled with loss and its triumphant opposites." - Susie Boyt
"What a writer. A raw and beautiful exposition on grief and loss but so beautifully earthed in the everyday. Terrific." - Elizabeth Buchan
"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." - Patrick Gale
"Louisa Young is the great chronicler of romantic love and the pain of its loss." - Linda Grant
"A wonderful and inventive novel, sorrowful and hopeful in equal measure. It was a true pleasure to read." - Miranda Cowley Heller
"A beautiful book. Insanely romantic and utterly convincing." - Julie Myerson
"A tale of two love stories with a supernatural twist, Twelve Months and a Day is poignant and sad as well as funny and beautifully written and imagined. What if our beloveds lived on as ghosts and watched us grieve, what if they never really leave us, and what if some of these ghosts even meet? You will fall in love again as you read this clever book by a writer who understands grief. Hugely engaging and readable. A bitter-sweet pang in my heart as it ended. A page-turner." - Monique Roffey
"What a writer. A raw and beautiful exposition on grief and loss but so beautifully earthed in the everyday. Terrific." - Elizabeth Buchan
"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." - Patrick Gale
"Louisa Young is the great chronicler of romantic love and the pain of its loss." - Linda Grant
"A wonderful and inventive novel, sorrowful and hopeful in equal measure. It was a true pleasure to read." - Miranda Cowley Heller
"A beautiful book. Insanely romantic and utterly convincing." - Julie Myerson
"A tale of two love stories with a supernatural twist, Twelve Months and a Day is poignant and sad as well as funny and beautifully written and imagined. What if our beloveds lived on as ghosts and watched us grieve, what if they never really leave us, and what if some of these ghosts even meet? You will fall in love again as you read this clever book by a writer who understands grief. Hugely engaging and readable. A bitter-sweet pang in my heart as it ended. A page-turner." - Monique Roffey
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