- English literature, Authors, Fiction, Death
"Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, is well acquainted with death, but until now hadn't met Death in person - a black, working-class woman who shape-shifts and does her work unseen.
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Contemporary, contemplative, grave and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Salena Godden
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781838851194
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