Some loves never end.
They just ask you to stop giving everything.
An intimate novel about mental illness, loyalty, and the parts of ourselves we give away for love.
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01 — Inside the novel
What Love Means
At forty, Sally Brooks rents a small apartment in southern Italy for three months, just for herself: the sea, warm bread, a landlady with rules for everything. But some things travel with you.
She met Luke at nineteen. When he slowly disappeared into an illness no one could see, she held on, carrying his darkness and her own exhaustion until there was almost nothing left of her.
Now one message from him brings it all back.
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