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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. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden “Mrs Death has had enough. The cover looks so much like the UK cover of The Vanishing Half! I’m getting Days Without End vibes, and the mention of copious biblical references is a draw for me rather than a turn-off. “A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence.” Lots of hype about this one. I loved Grushin’s previous novel, Forty Rooms. One night, she sneaks out of the palace to get help from the Witch who, for a price, offers love potions to disgruntled housewives.” A feminist retelling. Yet now, two children and thirteen-and-a-half years later, things have gone badly wrong. The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin “Cinderella married the man of her dreams – the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale rules. … A strangely beautiful novel about hope and love and orange-bellied parrots.” I’ve had mixed success with Flanagan, but the blurb draws me and I’ve read good early reviews so far. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan “In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother … increasingly escapes through her hospital window … When Anna’s finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears, Anna too feels the pull of the window. Much more fiction is catching my eye this time.
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The following are in UK release date order, within sections by genre the quoted descriptions are from the publisher blurbs on Goodreads.