Grieve

Luca Meerman is thirty-four years old when his wife Sara dies on an ordinary Thursday morning. Not after a long illness. Not with a farewell. She sends him a message - don't forget the wok ♥ - and goes to work. And won't come back. What Remains follows Luca through three years of mourning, survival and learning to live slowly, painfully. Not restoring - that word does not exist in this story. But move on. Day after day, notebook after notebook, until the words become a book and the book a legacy, and the legacy is something he can give to the world. Because Sara left things behind. Eleven letters in a shoebox. An unfinished novel of ninety-two pages and half a sentence. A fig tree in the garden. A diary in a book bag. Pictures under the bed. A heart with a wok message. And the way she lived - complete, present, without half doing anything - that slowly turns Luca into the man he never was but could always have been. This is not a story about how to overcome grief. This is a story about how you learn to wear what cannot be worn. About the little things that are bigger than they seem. About the people you let in when you prefer to keep the door closed. About what is left of love