'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,...

**“A glorious novel that is as beautifully written as it is impossible to put down, a combination that requires a uniquely deft hand.” —Leila Mottley, New York Times bestselling author of NightcrawlingA brilliantly provocative and compulsive novel in which a husband and wife conceive an unorthodox plan to preserve their late son’s memory, and bend the rules of motherhood to their will . . .**Georges is dead. Charlotte’s darling son has died, still dressed ...

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...