A tender, precise and pitch-perfect novel about a widow of legendary beauty and a love that endures beyond death from the new Dutch literary star.

Madame Verona and her husband lived in isolation on a hill above a small village. When Mr Verona died, the locals expected that the legendary beauty would return to the village, but Madame Verona had enough wood to keep her warm during the years it would take to make a cello - the instrument her husband loved. When the last log has burned, Madame Verona sets off down the path, with her cello and her memories, knowing that she will not return.