feel so much loss, Ove. Loss, as if my heart was beating outside my body.’ They stood in silence for a long time, with their arms around each other. And at long last she lifted her face towards his, and looked into his eyes with great seriousness. ‘You have to love me twice as much now,’ she said. And then Ove lied to her for the second – and last – time: he said that he would. Even though he knew it wasn’t possible for him to love her any more than he already did.
