Many of us have done it without realising: we meet someone and quietly begin building — the mornings, the home, the fights we'd survive, the children, the white hair, the tea in the garden. And then they leave, and we are left holding a complete, impossible life.

This book is written for those people. It is one man's version of that imagined life — the bike rides, the rooftop nights, the daughter who never existed, the song that still plays — but it is also your story, and hers, and his.

Available in paperback (cash on delivery in Pakistan) and as an e-book worldwide. Readers who love it often move next to Kaisi Rahi Zindagani Meri, Hasnain Muavia's Urdu novel exploring the same ache in long form.