This Too Shall Pass

Author Milena Busquets
Narrator Mozhan Marnò
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 16 November 2017
Run Time 3 hours and 59 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Modern and contemporary fiction.

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What to expect

Random House presents the audiobook edition of This Too Shall Pass by Milena Busquets, read by Mozhan Marno.

Forty years old and suddenly motherless, Blanca is left shocked and rudderless by the death of the most important person in her life.

To deal with her dizzying grief and confusion, Blanca turns to her dearest friends, her closest family, a change of scenery, and sex. Leaving Barcelona behind, she returns to her mother’s former home in Cadaqués on the coast, accompanied by her two sons, two ex-husbands, and two best friends, with plans to meet her married lover.

Haunted by both the past and the present, Blanca spends the summer in this impossibly beautiful place alongside those she loves most. In loss she learns to find resilience and hope, and what it means to live, truly and happily, on her own terms.

Critics Review

Should be the hit of the summer. Couldn’t stop. Fun, raw, sexy, true.

Matt Haig

A beautiful novel about life, death, love and sex. This Too Shall Pass is a funny, sexy, fiercely clever novel that takes us into the heart of what it means to love and how we must try to find a way to live even when we are brought low by grief.

The Pool

Like a day at the beach – a European beach, with cigarettes and espresso – this novel lingers in the mind well after it is over, reminding us of the intimacy between pleasure and loss

New York Times Book Review

Unforgettable

Marie Claire

Funny, philosphical and a delight to read.

Stylist

Spanish literature has found its phenomenon

Le Figaro Littéraire (France)

Full of subtle wisdom

Harper's Bazaar

[A] summery, sexy, cool debut novel…light, profound, sensual, unmistakably European: this may be the only book about grief to feel like a vacation.

Kirkus Review, *Starred*

Busquets has a compelling, original voice. [She] is a brilliant showstopper – just as you’re laughing at Blanca’s breezy sarcasm, her expletive-infested brio, she catches your throat with a thought so disarmingly sad it turns the room grey. The worst thing about the death of a mother, she says, is not that you won’t ever see her face again but you will never again be seen through her eyes. Therein lies the true loneliness of losing a parent!

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