Some Bright Nowhere

‘A moving meditation on love’s many forms and how a marriage can surprise you – right to the end’ People

‘This beautifully written story is going to get you thinking about some things that really matter’ Oprah Winfrey

‘One of the most emotionally truthful novels I’ve read in years. Penetrating, humane, funny and wise. One of those rare books that once you’ve finished, comes with you for life’ Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

‘A moving book, realistic about how messy relationships can be around death. I was enraptured by it. A pleasure to read’ Philippa Perry, author of How To Stay Sane

‘An extraordinarily powerful novel. Compassionate and absorbing, I read it in awe and haven’t stopped thinking about it since’ Claire Powell, author of At the Table

‘Slyly solemn and skillfully surprising’New York Times

‘Packer sketches the nuances of [Claire and Eliot’s] love with a devastating sharpness, poignantly exploring the challenges of facing death with grace’ Washington Post

‘One of those rare books that leaves you feeling altered somehow, like the light has shifted; tender, moving, poignant’ Huma Qureshi, author of Playing Games

‘An exquisite gem of a novel, shot through with luminous prose and profound insight into the human heart … I loved it’ Tania James, author of Loot

‘I read it feverishly; I lived and mourned with its characters’ Ayşegül Savaş, author of The Anthropologists

‘A heartbreaking novel that actually made me happy’ Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion

‘A searing and profoundly moving portrait of a marriage in extremis’ Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Dog of the North

‘Readers, you will shed tears and talk long into the night about this book … Profound and moving and real’ Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less

‘Written in prose beautiful enough to get you drunk … A triumph’ Rufi Thorpe, author of Margot’s Got Money Troubles

‘A tender, delicately-layered portrait of a marriage … warm, funny, hopeful’ Frances Wise, author of The Book Game

Ann Packer is the acclaimed author of two collections of short fiction, Swim Back to Me and Mendocino and Other Stories, and three internationally bestselling novels, The Children’s Crusade, Songs Without Words, and The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, which received the Kate Chopin Literary Award, among many other prizes and honours. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and in the O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies. Her novels have been published around the world. She lives in New York and Maine.