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Publisher: Canongate
Author: Salena Godden
ISBN: 9781838851224
Year: 2021
Format: Paperback
Fiction, Crime
Mrs Death Misses Death
by
Salena Godden
Mrs Death Misses Death by
Salena Godden
Reviews
"A modern-day Pilgrim’s Progress leavened with caustic wit… This is not light-hearted stuff, yet Godden has produced a miraculously light-hearted novel… an elegant, occasionally uproarious, danse macabre."
The Guardian
Summary
Mrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel.
Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted by her job and now seeks someone to unburden her conscience to.
She meets Wolf, a troubled young writer, who – enthralled by her stories – begins to write Mrs Death’s memoirs. As the two reflect on the losses they have experienced (or facilitated), their friendship flourishes. All the while, despite her world-weariness, Death must continue to hold humans’ fates in her hands, appearing in our lives when we least expect her …
Winner of The Indie Book Award for Fiction.