'Nova Weetman’s Love, Death & Other Scenes is an elegiac memoir, a subgenre of memoir that gives ballast to stories of everyday lives by focusing on life’s ultimate drama: death. Of course, the everyday and mortality are intimate companions. When the poet Philip Larkin asks, “Where can we live but days?”, the question brings “the priest and the doctor / In their long coats / Running over the fields.”' (Introduction)