The Life of Life
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But as she awaits the arrival of her sister Death and their celestial guests, there is a distinct sense of unease in the air. Look closely and the signs are there: the water tastes sour, the light has changed and now an ominous tear has appeared in the dawn sky.
Time advances with a new, dark urgency, and as the clocks tick, ancient rivalries ignite and loyalties are betrayed. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
Kaleidoscopic in scope and deeply felt at its core, The Life of Life is a dazzling and timely allegory of good and evil, and an anthem sung to sisterhood, the magic of community and the power of resistance.
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About the author
Salena Godden FRSL is an award-winning author, poet and broadcaster of mixed Jamaican-Irish heritage. Her debut novel, Mrs Death Misses Death, won the Indie Book Award for Fiction and the People’s Book Prize, and was shortlisted at the British Book Awards and for the Gordon Burn Prize. Her most recent books include the literary childhood memoir, Springfield Road and poetry collections Pessimism is for Lightweights and With Love, Grief and Fury, which was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers Award and received a Special Commendation from the Poetry Book Society. Her work has been recognised by the Forward Poetry Prize, 4thWrite Short Story Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, Jerwood Compton Foundation and the Bridport Poetry 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.
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