A Candle In the Bottle

<p><strong>Chris is dying and he's decided to take fate into his own hands.</strong></p><p></p><p>In a hotel in Zurich with his nephew Adam as witness to the end the pair do what they've always done: drink too much and avoid what matters.</p><p></p><p>But as the city pulls them into strange days and stranger nights-burning snowmen jazz clubs bar magicians awkward dances a black cat and of course women-the carefully planned goodbye begins to unravel into something messier funnier and far more human.</p><p></p><p><em>A Candle In the Bottle</em> is a darkly humorous meditation on assisted dying grief failed intimacy aging youth and the absurd necessity of laughter.</p><p></p><p>For readers of bittersweet literary fiction existential tragicomedies and beautifully messy stories about love loss and the moments in between.</p>