Published: 2015, Pan MacMillan Genre: Fiction Themes: Loneliness, widowhood, advancing years, family, small-town America My rating (out of 5): ❤❤❤ Our Souls at Night was Kent Haruf's final novel and I selected it to read because I very much enjoyed his earlier book, Plainsong (see link to review below). Both the books are written in a very straightforward, plain style, and there are no wasted words, but somehow I felt I didn't engage with the book in quite the same way as I did with Plainsong. The book is divided into very short chapters that are sometimes only two to three pages long, and the story is told mostly through the use of dialogue. The two main characters, Addie and Louis, have lived and bought up their families in the small American town of Holt and, now widowed in later life, they find themselves alone. Addie is fed up with spending lonely nights with no-one to talk to for comfort, so one day she calls at Louis's door and proposes ...