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All My Puny Sorrows
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Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015Sunday Times Top Choice Summer ReadElf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters.Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die.Yoli is divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive.When Elf`s latest suicide attempt leaves her hospitalised weeks before her highly anticipated world tour, Yoli is forced to confront the impossible question of whether it is better to let a loved one go.`The novel she has written – so exquisitely that you`ll want to savour every word – reads as if it has been wrenched from her heart.` Christina Patterson, Sunday Times`[Toews] has produced a masterly book of such precise dignity. It is, also against all the odds, at times a desperately humorous novel.` Daily Mail