They both knew that this moment would come: Claire's illness is entering the phase of the last months and weeks. For almost forty years, they have had a good marriage, raised two children and overcome life's challenges together - the sparkling Claire and Eliot, always somewhat in their shadow, but unconditionally by their side. Perhaps they have never been as close as they are now. Then Claire confronts him with a wish that throws him completely off track: She doesn't want him around her in the time she has left, but her best friends Holly and Michelle. A sensitive novel told with masterful lightness about the true impositions of love, about hurt and generosity and the unpredictability of the last things. Biography (Ann Packer)