Miss Hawkins checks her watch at 2:30 in the afternoon. She has calculated that if her plan works perfectly, she will be dead by six o'clock that evening. But her suicide attempt fails, and instead of achieving the death she wanted, she finds herself condemned to continue living. This unexpected reprieve becomes a different kind of sentence entirely. Rather than retreat into despair, Miss Hawkins decides to transform her remaining time into something she has never experienced before. She sets out on a deliberate quest to discover and savor the hidden joys that life offers. Her mission takes her into territories of pleasure and experience that she had previously avoided or never known existed. The novel follows her journey as she learns to taste what she had been missing, turning her failed death wish into an awakening to authentic living.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, contemporary, psychological-thriller
Vibes: intimate, introspective, thought-provoking
Tropes: redemption, second-chance
Period: 20th-Century
Hardcover · Penguin Books Ltd
Content warnings: suicide