A review by starness
Agatha by Anne Cathrine Bomann

5.0

Loneliness, ageing, and mortality are not the cheeriest of subjects but this book deals with it successfully. When a psychiatrist nearing retirement starts to count down the hours when he can finally leave his practice in walks Agatha. Most days he just goes through the motions hardly listening or really caring about his patients other than a few token mmhmms and pretending to write notes about them, he feels bored apathy most of the time and is completely disconnected from his own feelings. Agatha in a short span of time turns the tables and makes him question his own mental stability and he becomes quite fixated on her, she manages to make him feel human again all while he deals with his own existential crisis, he manages to make a personal connection something that he finally admits to missing in his own life. I love how this author really captures the heart of loneliness, the dread and despair of a lonely existence. I found this book comforting in a strange way.