Our Last Year

Our Last Year is a book about change; through the internal narration of its two characters, the novel follows the disintegration and renewal of a marriage, in synthesis with a much wider natural reality. It tells a story of damage and destruction, both painful and restorative, and necessary. The trajectory of the novel of becoming part of the evolutionary process, awake to it, enlivened by it, compassionate towards it is dramatised through two minds, asking readers to reconsider their relationship with themselves, with others, and with the planet itself. A lucid and refreshingly uplifting masterpiece about a fraught period in the life of a married couple, Our Last Year surprised and moved and entranced me, calming and healing me with its wisdom and perspectives. Tao Lin