Imagined afterlife of father’s love for a daughter

This beautiful novel tells a simple story of a heartbroken father’s apocalyptic grief at the death of his only child, his beloved 13-year-old daughter. While the subject matter might be off-putting the book itself is as fantastic as it is grim.

Charles Crosby is a landscape gardener whose world crashes down around him when his daughter is killed while cycling home from the seaside to her home in the small town of Enon in Massachusetts.