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Mrs Death is exhausted after an eternity of doing her job and wants someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, knows death well but has never before met Death in person: a Black, working-class woman who shape-shifts and does her work unseen. It is Salena Godden’s debut novel.
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