AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS

EFTER KORT TIDS SYGDOM – AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS

By Laura Ringo

It wasn’t really a date. It was me inviting a then-stranger glasses customer to my place for a glass of wine, three days after I had kicked Nikolaj out and had sex with the stranger in a bathroom stall at Peppers. I had no idea what I was doing, but I felt like young entrepreneurs do when they think they have a brilliant idea. I was willing to bet the whole store. It was chemistry. I no longer wanted to be an I, I wanted to be a we, and I wanted to be that with Troels. 

NELLY LIVES ON Falster with her boyfriend, Troels, and has worked as an assistant at Praktik Optik for ten years. Everything is stable and good. Until the day Troels is diagnosed with bowel cancer. 

AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS is Laura Ringo’s most heartfelt book to date. It is a tragicomic novel about the optical industry, the boss from hell, love and the fear of loss.