Some Bright Nowhere
‘Readers, you will shed tears and talk long into the night about this book’ ANDREW SEAN GREER
‘A heartbreaking novel’ MEG WOLITZER
‘A triumph’ RUFI THORPE
‘Unforgettable’ J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN
‘Exquisite’ TANIA JAMES
An extraordinarily beautiful and life-affirming new novel from one of America’s greatest chroniclers of the human heart, Ann Packer.
Eliot and his wife Claire have been happily married for nearly four decades. They’ve raised two children in their sleepy Connecticut town and have weathered the inevitable ups and downs that come with a long marriage. Now, eight years into Claire’s cancer diagnosis it’s time to gather their loved ones and prepare for what comes next.
Through Claire’s illness, Eliot has willingly and lovingly shifted into the role of caregiver, coming to appreciate the new intimacy this creates. But as he focuses on settling into what will be their last weeks together, Claire makes an unexpected request that leaves him reeling.
Ann Packer makes a triumphant return with this beautifully powerful and life-affirming novel. Some Bright Nowhere explores the profound gifts and costs of truly loving someone, and the unexpected feelings we experience as the end of life draws near.
‘An exquisite gem of a novel, shot through with luminous prose and profound insight into the human heart. Trust me: you’ve never read a novel about marriage – about sacrifice and selfishness and soul-mending hope – quite like this one. I loved it’ Tania James, author of Loot -
'A devastating novel that miraculously floats with the light and life it carries. I read it feverishly; I lived and mourned with its characters' Ayşegül Savaş, author of The Anthropologists -
‘A heartbreaking novel that actually made me happy – happy to have known these characters and watched them work through the puzzle at the heart of the story, and to have lived with them in their world as long as I did. It's a wonderful book’ Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion -
‘Readers, you will shed tears and talk long into the night about this book … Profound and moving and real, Packer has written another stirring account of the heart’ Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less -
‘A novel so psychologically insightful it feels dangerous, written in prose beautiful enough to get you drunk … A triumph’ Rufi Thorpe, author of Margot’s Got Money Troubles -
‘I couldn’t stop reading this heartbreaking, heart-expanding novel, and I wept at the end … Unforgettable’ J. Courtney Sullivan, author of The Cliffs -