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Mrs Death Misses Death
- Narrated by: Salena Godden
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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Mrs Death Misses Death
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Publisher's Summary
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.
Enthralled by her stories, Wolf becomes Mrs Death's scribe and begins to write her memoirs. Using their desk as a vessel and conduit, Wolf travels across time and place with Mrs Death to witness deaths of past and present and discuss what the future holds for humanity. As the two reflect on the losses they have experienced - or, in the case of Mrs Death, facilitated - their friendship grows into a surprising affirmation of hope, resilience and love. 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....
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Andrew Moharic
- 24-10-2022
Beautiful and unique
There are lines in this book that will stay with me for years to come. I get the sense it will touch people differently depending on where you are at, which makes it so wonderful.
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- E@L
- 17-03-2024
Spine-tingling
As someone who is about to go under for some very major surgery, I couldn't think of a better book to both reassure me and terrify me. Hypnotic and electric. Why care about dying when everyone does it? Because the long disclaimer that the books opens with itself makes life worth living, full as it is with amazing perception of the profound and the quotidian, a panoply of thoughts rich with smiles and wit. I think it belongs on the shelf with those other books of life affirming pessimism such as Pessoa, Robert Burton, Beckett, and, and, I don't know, Leonard Cohen and Kierkegaad?
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