Before Everything - Couverture rigide

Redel's prose is artful and insightful ... this is a hugely moving celebration of love, life and friendship. (Eithne Farry S Magazine)

Terminal illness doesn't always bring out the best in people, nor does it preclude other sorrows. To find an honest and sympathetic reflection of both truths is refreshing. (Daily Mail)

Bittersweet (Grazia)

An extraordinary, touching and tender story about female friendship. (Prima Magazine)

A riveting celebration of life and death. (Elle Magazine)

Brings to mind Virginia Woolf's The Waves. (BBC Culture)

Poetic and insightful ... I have been blown away. (Laura Jane Williams, author of Becoming)

An unflinching and affecting look at how one woman's final days change the lives of those around her. (Publishers Weekly)

Before Everything turns on the grand themes, love and death. Redel's elegant narration unfolds not in linear time but in the time of memory, moving among the friends to reveal their shifting connections, needs, and circumstances. At once tough and tender, funny and sad, this beautifully written novel articulates the dynamic realities of those wondrous friendships that last a lifetime. (Siri Hustvedt)

Before Everything is a riveting, timely story that explores the unsettlingly beautiful, emotionally charged landscape that is revealed when old friends embrace what they have never before admitted: the limits of mortality and the boundlessness of friendship. (Ruth Ozeki)