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Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves

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Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Summer by: People, BuzzFeed, Goodreads, and more... • "One of the most original, riveting, and moving books I’ve read in a long while." —Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project

A tender, wise novel narrated by Death himself, about a lonely reaper who finally learns what it means to be alive.

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About the book:

Travis is Death in the modern world—a quiet, stoic figure who lives with his cat in a small gray town and spends his days easing people gently into their final hours. He never questions his purpose and never tries to change anyone's fate, because he understands, better than anyone, that the balance of life and death must be kept.

Then Dalia, a midwife, and her exuberant eight-year-old daughter Layla move in across the hall. Despite Travis's best efforts to keep his distance, he finds himself pulled into their world, embraced by a family for the first time.

Through them, Travis begins to understand what he has only ever witnessed from the outside: the fierce, fleeting beauty of being alive. Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt is a radiant, ultimately uplifting story about loving fully, letting go, and finding our place in a universe far bigger than ourselves.

Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Summer by: People, BuzzFeed, Goodreads, and more... • "One of the most original, riveting, and moving books I’ve read in a long while." —Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project

A tender, wise novel narrated by Death himself, about a lonely reaper who finally learns what it means to be alive.

Rent new hardcover on Trove: $11.20 - Each rental copy can be rented for 30 days. If you love the book and decide to keep it, the remaining balance applies.

Buy new hardcover on Trove: $28.00

__________________________________________

About the book:

Travis is Death in the modern world—a quiet, stoic figure who lives with his cat in a small gray town and spends his days easing people gently into their final hours. He never questions his purpose and never tries to change anyone's fate, because he understands, better than anyone, that the balance of life and death must be kept.

Then Dalia, a midwife, and her exuberant eight-year-old daughter Layla move in across the hall. Despite Travis's best efforts to keep his distance, he finds himself pulled into their world, embraced by a family for the first time.

Through them, Travis begins to understand what he has only ever witnessed from the outside: the fierce, fleeting beauty of being alive. Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt is a radiant, ultimately uplifting story about loving fully, letting go, and finding our place in a universe far bigger than ourselves.

  • Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster

    Title: Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt: A Novel

    Author: Ben Reeves

    On Sale Date: July 7, 2026

    ISBN 13: 9781668216361

    ISBN 10: 1668216361

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $28.00 USD

    BISAC: Fiction / Family Life (+2)

    Page Count: 256 pages

    Dimensions: 8.4 in H | 5.5 in W | 1 in T

    Weight: 0.8 lb

  • Ben Reeves lives in Peterborough, UK, with his wife and two children. An early draft of Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt won the international 2024 Bath Novel Award. When he's not writing, he paints, makes music, and works as a web designer for a book printing company.

  • Pre-release readers are calling it unforgettable, heartbreaking, and hopeful:

    • Early readers describe Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt as a book club must-have—the kind of story that's impossible to put down once Travis's world pulls you in.

    • Booksellers have praised its emotional range, calling it heartbreaking and hopeful in equal measure, and a wise, compassionate meditation on the brevity of life.

    • Others have singled out the prose itself, comparing its quiet power to Paul Harding's Tinkers and Jim Crace's Being Dead, and describing passages worth underlining just to savor the language.

    • Even readers who hesitated over its subject matter have come away moved, calling it one of the most profound and beautifully written novels they've encountered, with an ending they found themselves rereading again and again.

This book is for you if:

  • You love inventive fiction that uses a fantastical premise to say something very true.

  • You want a book that will genuinely make you cry and reward you with a twist.

  • You're drawn to gentle, animal charm in your fiction.

  • You want a short, beautifully packaged, endlessly quotable novel, perfect to finish in a weekend.

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