Shelf Life by Livia Franchini

Shelf Life is whipsmart slyly heartbreaking and I felt the truth of it in my bones. Franchini dissects ideas of love dating and identity in a way that feels both ruthless and humane. I loved it. Sophie Mackintosh author of The Water Cure Launching an intelligent perceptive new voice in fiction Shelf Life is the exquisite heartwrenching story of a woman rebuilding herself on her own terms. Ruth is thirty years old. She works as a nurse in a care home and her fiance has just broken up with her. Paperback softback