Everything For the Trip
Publisher: Atlas Contact
The intimacy of a secret lifelong love
No. 1 in the Dutch bestseller list upon publication
Over 75.000 copies in print
A terminally ill woman chooses a hospice because there she can also receive her lover. In a fold-out bed. With morphine patches and a forbidden glass of wine from a teacup. In the weeks that remain, she asks him to take her on a journey. ‘I want to get away from here!’ The couple take flight in their imagination, experience wonderful literary journeys and find support in writers and poets. But they also explore each other. Their differences, similarities, the lies, flirtations, betrayals, and wounds that shaped them. Everything for the Trip is a moving novel about a great love.
Praise:
‘… a sublime novel, not only about ‘love and lies’ but also about decline and death.’ – NCR Handelsblad
‘I don’t think it would have been possible to write a text that feels so pure, almost playful, any other way.’ – De Volkskrant
‘Van Dis creates a monument to a love that consisted outside the confines of the ordinary.’ – De Groene Amsterdammer
