The Life of Life
Salena Godden
Mar 2027 · Canongate Books
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Life witnesses the creation of a visionary painting only to discover it hides a dark truth of how her once lover Time has betrayed her and her sister Death. One of Life's favourites, a young sassy Taiwanese-American artist Cat Chen-Monroe arrives to take a summer job with Mama Hugginbottom in the The Happy Pub, but all is not as it seems in this surreal sleepy seaside village which may or may not exist.
Salena Godden returns with an audacious second novel set in the Mrs Death Misses Death world, inviting us into the heart of an allegorical tale of conflict and contradiction, a parable of good and evil, a time-travelling trip into the mirrored realms of dream and nightmare, interweaving fact and fiction, and the very real human cost of avarice and greed. Ultimately can Life and Death heal old sibling rivalries, as Love is lost, and as Hope is in desperate need of all of our attention and care.
Salena Godden returns with an audacious second novel set in the Mrs Death Misses Death world, inviting us into the heart of an allegorical tale of conflict and contradiction, a parable of good and evil, a time-travelling trip into the mirrored realms of dream and nightmare, interweaving fact and fiction, and the very real human cost of avarice and greed. Ultimately can Life and Death heal old sibling rivalries, as Love is lost, and as Hope is in desperate need of all of our attention and care.
Life witnesses the creation of a visionary painting only to discover it hides a dark truth of how her once lover Time has betrayed her and her sister Death. One of Life's favourites, a young sassy Taiwanese-American artist Cat Chen-Monroe arrives to take a summer job with Mama Hugginbottom in the...
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About the author
Salena Godden FRSL is an award-winning author, poet, memoirist and broadcaster of Jamaican-mixed heritage based in London. Her debut novel Mrs Death Misses Death won the Indie Book Award for Fiction and the People's Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards and the Gordon Burn Prize. Her most recent books include the literary childhood memoir Springfield Road and poetry collections With Love, Grief and Fury and Pessimism is for Lightweights: 30 Pieces of Courage and Resistance. Her work has been shortlisted for the 4thWrite Short Story Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, Jerwood Compton Foundation, Bridport Poetry Prize and highly commended by the Forward Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Patron of Hastings Book Festival and an Honorary Fellow of West Dean, Sussex.
@salenagodden | salenagodden.co.uk
@salenagodden | salenagodden.co.uk
Salena Godden FRSL is an award-winning author, poet, memoirist and broadcaster of Jamaican-mixed heritage based in London. Her debut novel Mrs Death Misses Death won the Indie Book Award for Fiction and the People's Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards and the Gordon Burn P...
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