A Candle In the Bottle: A dark satire about love, loss and the moments in between - Paperback

by Josh Bircham (Author), Geoff Gough (Cover Design by)

Chris is dying, and he's decided to take fate into his own hands.

In a hotel in Zurich with his nephew, Adam, as witness to the end, the pair do what they've always done: drink too much and avoid what matters.

But as the city pulls them into strange days and stranger nights-burning snowmen, jazz clubs, bar magicians, awkward dances, a black cat, and of course, women-the carefully planned goodbye begins to unravel into something messier, funnier, and far more human.

A Candle In the Bottle is a darkly humorous meditation on assisted dying, grief, failed intimacy, aging youth, and the absurd necessity of laughter.

For readers of bittersweet literary fiction, existential tragicomedies, and beautifully messy stories about love, loss, and the moments in between.