A comical, tender, and highly original novel about mental health, the certainties of medicine, buried trauma, love, death and time lost in the crushing - and comical - hopes of modern life. Vita Woods is on the brink. She has a good job and a successful doctor boyfriend, Max. But she has been sick for months, with an illness that no doctor, not even Max, can medically diagnose. The problem might be Vita herself but as far as anyone can prove... there's nothing wrong with her. In conversation with Ruth Dugdall