The threefold garland - Severine Kirchhof

Irena is a strong woman, larger than life and much loved. She is dying. Hanna, her only daughter, comes home so that she and her father, Tad, can share Irena's last few months. A close-knit, London emigre family, they are intensely aware of each others' views and reactions. The three accounts intertwine inseparably, drawing the reader into the dying and beyond.This is an intense, harrowing at times, and deeply moving story. It is about the trivial changes we meet when we reach the end of life, just as much as it is about the deep questions, about hope and faith, and of doubt too.