Opt Out

Carolina Setterwall (Author) , Deborah Bragan-Turner (Translator) , Sofia Engstrand (Narrator) , Richard Attlee (Narrator)

Opt Out

Carolina Setterwall (Author) , Deborah Bragan-Turner (Translator) , Sofia Engstrand (Narrator) , Richard Attlee (Narrator)

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Everything will be fine. That is what Mary and John promise when they tell their two children that they are getting a divorce. But the separation becomes wildly different from what they had both imagined.

John is quickly scooped up by a new woman while Mary is forced to realise that an adult woman without a partner is not an uncomplicated matter in the eyes of society. While John moves on with both the children's trust and his personal finances intact, Mary - who has spent her life living for the approval of others - must reevaluate herself, her choices and her life.

Opt Out is a searing reckoning with the limitations of marriage and gender roles, and an examination of the image of the good mother. Smart, intimate and emotionally astute, it is a story about family and love - for better or for worse - and the difficulties of breaking away from the constraints of one life in pursuit of another.

Praise for Carolina Setterwall and Let's Hope for the Best

'I've read it twice now ... Utterly compulsive' Marian Keyes
'I think the world should read it' Lisa Taddeo
'Brutally candid … The most compelling book I've read in years' The Times
'It's impossible not to draw comparisons with Karl Ove Knausgaard' Evening Standard
'Every spare, controlled sentence has the ring of truth … Gripping' Daily Mail

Product details

Published	Aug 14 2025
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	384
ISBN	9781526608093
Imprint	Bloomsbury Circus
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Carolina Setterwall

Translator

Deborah Bragan-Turner

Narrator

Sofia Engstrand

Narrator

Richard Attlee

As we alternate between the couple's perspectives the cumulative effect of their journeys becomes quietly affecting

Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail
I was riveted by this propulsive, calmly devastating portrayal of a couple's separation and the lives that continue beyond it. Setterwall's prose is never didactic, and yet she is in full command of her reader's ambivalence towards both her protagonists and the small but shattering betrayals they endure: by each other, by their bodies and by themselves

MARINA KEMP, author of The Unwilding
Carolina Setterwall doesn't shy away from darkness. Opt Out is a daring book, brave not least because it has the courage to point out the consequences of a divorce for the woman

Expressen
In Opt Out, the gaze is as relentlessly direct, heart-rending, and searching as in the debut . . . As an observant guide through the human psyche and relationships, Setterwall is astonishing

Västerbottenskuriren
Stylistically pure prose . . . Setterwall doesn't move a centimetre away from the dry and factual, and leaves it up to the reader to fill in the emotions . . . Incredibly skillfully written

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