Augustine Cerf

Wonderful, addictive, and devastating, Compensation will gut you with a description of loss, and have you laughing seconds later. It’s a mad, uniquely brilliant novel, sweet and cutting in the same breath. Reading this book is like overhearing the wildest, most scintillating conversation of your life — you’ll never want to turn away. Absolute banger

Georges is dead. Charlotte’s live-at-home, darling son took a blow to his head while out drinking, and she had to find him, still wearing last night’s clothes, lying on top of his sheets. He was only thirty-four. 
 
Left with only her philanderer, porn-addicted husband Erik for company, Charlotte desperately casts around for a way – any way – through her immeasurable grief. 
 
Erik, a surgeon, will remove their dead son’s sperm, and a surrogate will bring his baby into the world. The couple turn to Lena, their undocumented cleaner who has big dreams of her own. And as the once-established power dynamics begin to shift between the trio, desperation and guilt will push all three to their limits. 
 
Fearless, biting, and darkly funny, Compensation is an intoxicating story about delusion, domesticity, and above all, love: the strange shapes it can twist us into, what we’ll justify in its name, the tragedy of being bad at it, and the beauty of loving easily and generously.

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Wonderful, addictive, and devastating, Compensation will gut you with a description of loss, and have you laughing seconds later. It’s a mad, uniquely brilliant novel, sweet and cutting in the same breath. Re ...

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