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“She’s found perfect love, it’s forbidden love. She’s known this for a long time, but never felt it so clearly. This impossible relationship, it’s perfect, it’s exactly what she needed. A relationship that can’t last, a relationship that must inevitably come to an end, which will soon finish, which must logically end, so every time she sees him, she tells herself this may be the last time, it must be the last time, or if it’s not the last, it’s the before-last, and the last will be next time, because all this really must stop, it has to stop, either this time or the next, or the time after that but it will have to stop. Because it can’t go on, it’s not possible.”

As this extract shows, A NATURAL DEATH is carried by its obsessive, visceral writing… This first novel leaves its mark in the reader’s head, on their skin with a voice that grabs you by the throat and describes so closely, so accurately feelings of passion, desire and a lust for life. It tells a universal love story, one that is tragically cut short, describing it with rare intensity and introducing us to a new voice which has a healthy edge of humour and a sense of the ridiculous.

Agnès Olive was born in Marseille in 1966. She was a senior lecturer in Penal Law and Criminal Sciences at the University of Saints-Denis on Reunion Island. In 2002 she returned to Marseille to concentrate on writing, and in 2005 she established the La BelleBleue publishing company which she still runs.