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Publisher: Canongate

Author: Salena Godden

ISBN: 9781838851224

Year: 2021

Format: Paperback

Fiction, Crime

Mrs Death Misses Death by
Salena Godden

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$ 380.00 mxn

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.

“To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”

John Steinbeck

“I knew when I had looked for a long time that I had hardly begun to see.”

Nan Shepard

“What a mistake, above all, it had been to believe that I couldn’t live without him, when for a long time I had not been at all certain that I was alive with him.”

Elena Ferrante

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

George Orwell

“How short a time a person had to be alive, he thought. How long to be dead.”

Kate Grenville