The young German-Swiss novelist Benedict Wells has won the European Union Prize for his novel about childhood and growing up. The stylistically perfect and sensitive writing introduces us to a family of five who face all the hardships and joys of a normal family on a daily basis. Although their relationships are not ideal, they can still somehow rely on each other. But everything turns upside down in an instant when the children Jules, Marty and Liz lose their father and mother in a car accident. Values change completely in an instant, and things that were completely self-evident yesterday become unattainable overnight. Because they are minors, they end up in a boarding school where the conditions are far from ideal and where no one really cares about their feelings, sadness and the problems they are facing. Each in their own way, they try to follow the flow of life that throws them back and forth. Definitely worth reading!