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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024 WINNER OF THE AUGUST PRIZE 2022 (BEST FICTION) ''[A] miraculous sort of novel'' Hernan Diaz ''I wish I could write like this'' Fredrik Backman ''So good that I kept underlining passages so I could reread them later'' Mark Haddon ''Mesmerizing and hot to the touch'' THE NEW YORK TIMES ''Textured insights into human nature'' NEW YORKER ''Wistfully recalls a time when what was lost stayed lost'' THE TIMES A famous broadcaster writes a forgotten love letter; a friend abruptly disappears; a lover leaves something unexpected behind; a traumatised woman is consumed by her own anxiety. In the throes of a high fever, a woman lies bedridden. Suddenly, she is struck with an urge to revisit a particular novel from her past. Inside the book is an inscription: a message from an