The couple at the centre of Damien Wilkins’ Ockham NZ Book Awards shortlisted novel and Newsroom's Best Book of 2024 Delirious navigate the latter years of a life that has been punctuated by extreme loss and grief.
In 2020, award-winning Norwegian writer Hanne Ørstavik lost her real-life Italian husband to cancer shortly after an intense love and marriage to him in her 50s. Their relationship during his illness and the realisation that she would be left to continue alone informed her touching book Ti Amo.
Claire Mabey meets two writers whose work asks: how does someone continue through the loss they most fear? And how might we meet the new versions of ourselves that may emerge from the experience?
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