"… a sublime novel, not only about ‘love and lies’ but also about decline and death."
——NRC Handelsblad

"This is not a prickly tale about being ‘the other man.’ … Everything for the Trip is a story about the existence of different versions, about never being able to know each other completely. About how that might not matter."
——De Volkskrant

"I don’t think it would have been possible to write a text that feels so pure, almost playful, any other way."
——De Volkskrant

"Van Dis creates a monument to a love that consisted outside the confines of the ordinary."
——De Groene Amsterdammer

★75,000 copies in print, no. 1 in the Dutch bestseller list upon publication.
★The intimacy of a secret, lifelong love.
★The couple take flight in their imagination, experience wonderful literary journeys and find support in writers and poets. But they also explore each other. Their differences, similarities, the lies, flirtations, betrayals, and wounds that shaped them.

A terminally ill woman chooses a hospice because there she can also receive her lover. In a fold-out bed. With morphine patches and a forbidden glass of wine from a teacup. In the weeks that remain, she asks him to take her on a journey. ‘I want to get away from here!’ The couple take flight in their imagination, experience wonderful literary journeys and find support in writers and poets. But they also explore each other. Their differences, similarities, the lies, flirtations, betrayals, and wounds that shaped them. Everything for the Trip is a moving novel about a great love.

Adriaan van Dis (1946) is the author of an extensive and highly acclaimed literary oeuvre, that has been translated into 18 languages and honoured with numerous awards and nominations. Van Dis began his career in journalism, working for the NRC Handelsblad. He made his literary debut in 1983, with the novella Nathan Sid, which received the Golden Dog-Ear Award as the best-selling debut novel of the year. In 1994, he published My Father’s War, which won both the Golden Owl and the Trouw Public’s Choice Award. The novel was also nominated for the Libris Award, the AKO Award, and the Aristeion Award, and was shortlisted for the IMPAC Award. In 2009, Van Dis was awarded the Golden Quill in recognition of his entire oeuvre and its outstanding contribution to Dutch literature. He also received the Libris Literature Award for his novel I’ll Come Back (2014) and the Constantijn Huygens Award for his complete body of work in 2015. His novel Tenderness and a Warm Embrace has sold over 110,000 copies and won the NS Public’s Choice Award in 2024. Since 2023, Van Dis co-hosts the popular podcast Van Dis Unfiltered.