One last search for true meaning as the sands run out

One Hundred Days of Happiness

By Fausto Brizzi

Picador, €17.25

This book, the first novel from Italian director, screenwriter and film producer Fausto Brizzi, makes the reader think about the biggest “what if” of all: what if your time was nearly up?

For Lucio Battistini, the clock is ticking. After he finds out that he has liver cancer and has just three months left to live, he vows to turn his life around ...