Limbo Sweepstakes - Page 1

Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett. Displaced from the city to the quiet depths of the countryside, a woman finds herself suspended in a kind of emotional limbo, haunted by fragments of the life she left behind. Chief among them is Xavier, confident, possessive, and convinced he knows her better than she knows herself. She still loves him, but the desire is gone, a shift he refuses to accept.
Then a letter arrives from an old acquaintance, stirring memories of other lovers and near-lovers, each one a paradox of connection and contradiction, freedom and threat. Their traces linger in the smallest details: a coffee stain, a bouquet she never wanted, a kiss that changed everything. As she sifts through these remnants, she begins to question the nature of intimacy itself. What drives us to reach for another person? What keeps us tethered, or lets us go? In this hypnotic and deeply introspective novel, Claire-Louise Bennett unravels the quiet, aching mystery of how people shape us, even long after they’ve gone.