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The saddest thing I think I can imagine is passing through life without  some kind of impact, without leaving a legacy in one form of another. We all contribute. We enrich the lives of others in so many ways. We spend our lives trying to make sense of the world, searching for answers in striving to achieve wisdom but the only certainty in life is that one day, sooner or later, we will die. Murning's novel explores the fear and isolation of dying in a sensitive but powerful way. It is extremely moving and based on realism. Tobias Lovelost, the lemon who day after day, week after week, month after month survived on his own even after encountering disappointment after disappointment. Like the song says, you still haven't found what you're looking for. He was destined to be the man who didn't say anything, the man who wouldn't speak up for himself until he met Lorna. She instilled in him the confidence to speak his mind. His personal life, his marriage to Lorna...

He promised to take care of me and yet I feel afraid. I don't feel like Nick's wife. I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock...tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river. I don't feel real anymore. I feel I could disappear. Every picture tells a story. Whether pictorially depicted or intimately written such as a diary kept by our female protagonist, there are always (at least) two sides to every story and truths to unravel from the dishonesty and deceit. In a dysfunctional marriage, with mismatched relationships the faults lie with both parties. Nick and Amy's marriage might initially seem blissful with Amy swooning over Nick's socks fat with love on their first wedding anniversary before it turns pear-shaped and oppressive shortly afterwards. Amy was from an affluent background, the "product" of her parents' wealth based on the Amazing Amy series. Her childhood in fact, every part of her growing up had be...