'A compelling, unusual and excellent novel, beautifully balancing ambiguity and warmth' SARAH MOSS'Dazzlingly brilliant. I haven’t felt like this about a book in years ... it was a literary love affair' JULIET STEVENSON'Tender, troubling and stunningly observed' REBECCA PERRY'Daring, hilarious and profound ... Glorious' LEILA MOTTLEYGeorges is dead. Charlotte’s live-at-home,...

Georges is dead. Charlotte’s live-at-home, darling son took a blow to his head while out drinking, and she had to find him, still wearing last night’s clothes, lying on top of his sheets. He was only thirty-four.Left with only her philanderer, porn-addicted husband Erik for company, Charlotte desperately casts around for a way – any way – through her immeasurable grief.Erik, a surgeon, will remove their dead son’s sperm, and a surrogate will bring his baby into the world. T...