Martina Haag’s divorce novel portrays the hopelessness and rage that ensues from losing the one you love, but it also demonstrates that from the darkest of places, you re-emerge from the depths, nevertheless.

She takes off and attempts to write herself out of the situation but ends up burying herself deeper and deeper into her ex-husband’s red chequered jacket.

It is a rare read with a grief so exposed, it mercilessly illustrates what it is like to live in fear, and how painful a breakup can be for the one, who involuntarily is left behind.