Delirious 9781399762755 Hardback

THE AWARD-WINNING, WORD-OF-MOUTH NEW ZEALANDBESTSELLERNOMINATED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDWINNER OF NEW ZEALAND’S JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE’I was dazzled by this book’s intimacy, truth and complexity. It has everything I truly love in fiction’Charlotte Wood, author ofStone Yard Devotional’With precise emotional acuity, Wilkins shows us old age, old love, and old loss. A wonderful novel’Claire Fuller, author ofUnsettled Ground’A superb book – Damien Wilkins writes so movingly about grief and loss’Clare Chambers, author ofSmall PleasuresIt’s time. Mary, an ex cop, and her husband Pete, a former librarian, have decided to move into a retirement village. Selling their beloved house should be a clean break, but the past, it seems, has other ideas. A detective calls with new information about the case of their son, Will, who died in an accident forty years earlier. Mary finds herself returning to the last months of her sister’s shortened life. And Pete is haunted by memories of his late mother, who developed delirium and never recovered.An unforgettable novel of rare power and grace,Deliriousposes the questions we all eventually face, if we’re lucky – or unlucky – enough. How do we care for others? How do we face each new phase of life? And how do we ever cope?’Deliriousmade me laugh, think, weep and actually beat my breast. A masterpiece’Elizabeth Knox, author ofThe Absolute Book’Deliriousrearranged me. Utterly absorbing, moving, brilliant’Emily Perkins, author ofLioness