As the holidays approach, new titles are filling the shelves, much to our delight. Hafnarfjörður Library highlights selected authors and their contributions to the holiday book season each week in November on Mondays at 17.30.

When Lilja Ósk ends up tangled in a dog crate in the middle of a dinner party and falls on her head, she is convinced she will recover quickly she has neither the time nor patience for anything else. But reality turns out differently. What does a woman do when she loses herself? And when will the world’s best day in hell arrive?

Heimsins besti dagur í helvíti (The World’s Best Day in Hell) is Lilja’s first book, a raw, honest, and moving story that is at times funny, exploring how life can change in an instant.