'Wonderful' - Stylist'Thoroughly addictive. I loved it.' - RUTH HOGAN, author of The Keeper of Lost Things'Superb' - Louise O'NeillWhen Eva and Adam fall into bed one Friday night, tired and happy after drinks with friends, they have their whole lives ahead of them. But their story ends on page twelve.That's no reason to stop reading though, because How I Lose You is a story told backwards – ...

From her childhood in Romania, in a village 'as small as a thimble on the edge of the world', through to life in exile in Germany, Herta M�ller's story unspools against the tumultuous history of Romania in the latter half of the twentieth century. Here, the Nobel Prize laureate reflects on cultural history, memory and trauma, and on what it was to live and write during Ceausescu's regime: on the friendships that buckled under the weight of fear and paranoia; on the experience of being surv...