Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
The gorgeous, uplifting top ten bestseller for summer 2026
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- $279.00
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- $279.00
Descripción editorial
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
For fans of Fredrik Backman, Virginia Evans and Lisa Ridzén, an astonishing, deeply moving novel about finding beauty in the brevity of life, as narrated by the one who knows it best: Death.
'A gorgeously written book about what it means to be alive' Jodi Picoult
'This book will change your life' Joanna Cannon
'One of the most moving books I've read in a long while' Graeme Simsion
Travis lives an unassuming life with his cat in a small English town. Travis also happens to be the cosmic force of Death, visiting people in their final days and hours of life, before shepherding them into whatever happens next.
He listens to their stories, doesn't judge, and never tries to change anyone's fate... until he meets a young, single midwife called Dalia and her boisterous eight-year-old daughter, Layla. As he gets closer to this small, seemingly unremarkable family, Travis begins to learn what it is that makes life so worth living, and so what it is that is irrevocably lost in death.
Full of compassion and deep magic, Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt might be a novel about Death, but it's also about the joy of being alive - appreciating each day we have, from the people around us to the strange wonder of our spinning world.
From the five-star reader reviews:
'This book has changed me'
'Completely took my breath away'
'Absolutely blew me away'
'It touched me deeply'
'I want to stand on the rooftops and shout: you MUST read this'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Reeves debuts with a tender novel about a sympathetic Grim Reaper who lives as a handsome young man on the outskirts of London. Travis Smith has a day job in photo restoration, but his true calling is to visit people in their last moments, such as his 81-year-old neighbor, John, with whom he discusses poetry before John says "I know why you're here" and dies. He befriends Layla Preston, a seven-year-old girl who lives across the hall from his apartment, and strikes up a romance with Layla's mother, Dalia, despite his misgivings over his knowledge that Layla will soon be stricken with a life-threatening disease. Later, Travis observes Dalia's attempt to reconcile with her ex-partner, Nick, Layla's father, who struggles with an alcohol addiction. Reeves manages to avoid sentimentality, due in part to Travis's evenhanded view of humanity, and the novel's message about the importance of treasuring every moment of life is affirming rather than cloying. (Informing one of his charges that he has only nine minutes to live, Travis asks the man, "What are you going to do with them?"). Fans of Matt Haig will be satisfied with this bittersweet tale.
