Twelve Months and a Day
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
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?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Young (Devotion) immerses readers in a bittersweet narrative of loss and love as two ghosts join forces to help those they left behind overcome their loneliness. Though never married, pregnant London filmmaker Róisín Kennedy considers herself a widow after her fiancé, Nico, dies from a heart attack at 36. Meanwhile, in Scotland, musician Rasmus Sartorius is devastated after his wife, Jay, dies at 38 from sarcoidosis, a pulmonary illness. Jay and Nico meet once they're both already dead, helping each other to accept that they're ghosts now—and hatching a plan to match up their significant others. When Róisín's work assigns her to film Rasmus's concert and interview the artist, the pair butt heads when Rasmus refuses to be interviewed. They reconnect through apologetic emails, each learning more about the other and sharing in their mutual loss. Their correspondence leads into an intense IRL relationship, but to reach a happy ending the duo must navigate the murky waters of grief and survivor's guilt. In lyrical prose, Young crafts a deeply emotional depiction of two people trying to move on while wrestling with immense sorrow. Meanwhile, the ghostly duo adds levity as they try to make sense of their spectral existence. The result is an impressive and poignant romance.
Customer Reviews
Tedious
The plot was a good idea, but the book was exhausting to get through. Pages and pages of emails between the protagonists getting to know each other. Yawn.