From #1 bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, an unforgettable storyby turns heartbreaking and life-affirmingof a renowned novelist facing a devastating diagnosis and learning to live and love anew.

The bravest book youll read all year.Jodi Picoult

What Does It Feel Like? is fiction, but it is my most autobiographical work to date. Eves story is my story.Sophie Kinsella

Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the large, malignant tumor growing in her brain.

As Eve learns to walk, talk, and write againand as she wrestles with her diagnosis, and how and when to explain it to her beloved childrenshe begins to recall whats most important to her: long walks with her husbands hand clasped firmly around her own, family game nights, and always buying that dress when she sees it.

Recounted in brief anecdotes, each one is an attempt to answer the type of impossible questions recognizable to anyone navigating the labyrinth of grief. This short, extraordinary novel is a celebration of life, shot through with warmth and humorit will both break your heart and put it back together again.

Why did I write such a personal book? I have always processed my life through writing. Hiding behind my fictional characters, I have always turned my own life into a narrative. It is my version of therapy, maybe. Writing is my happy place, and writing this book, although tough going at times, was immensely satisfying and therapeutic for me.Sophie Kinsella