What Does It Feel Like?

From #1 bestselling author Sophie Kinsella,an unforgettable storyΓÇöby turns heartbreaking and life-affirmingΓÇöof a renowned novelist facing a devastating diagnosis and learning to live and love anew. ΓÇ£The bravest book youΓÇÖll read all year.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöJodi Picoult ΓÇ£Only Sophie Kinsella can make you laugh like this while sheΓÇÖs got you crying.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöTaylor Jenkins Reid ΓÇ£What Does It Feel Like? is fictionbut it is my most autobiographical work to date. EveΓÇÖs story is my story.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöSophie Kinsella Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husbandnever far from her sideexplains that she has had an operation to remove the largemalignant tumor growing in her brain. As Eve learns to walktalkand write againΓÇöand as she wrestles with her diagnosisand how and when to explain it to her beloved childrenΓÇöshe begins to recall whatΓÇÖs most important to her: long walks with her husbandΓÇÖs hand clasped firmly around her ownfamily game nightsand always buying that dress when she sees it. Recounted in brief anecdoteseach one is an attempt to answer the type of impossible questions recognizable to anyone navigating the labyrinth of grief. This shortextraordinary novel is a celebration of lifeshot through with warmth and humorΓÇöit will both break your heart and put it back together again. ΓÇ£Why did I write such a personal book? I have always processed my life through writing. Hiding behind my fictional charactersI have always turned my own life into a narrative. It is my version of therapymaybe. Writing is my happy placeand writing this bookalthough tough going at timeswas immensely satisfying and therapeutic for me.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöSophie Kinsella