num_pages: 210
description: Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. Celice and Joseph, married, middle-aged are lying naked on the coast. They had met and first had sex there as students almost thirty years before. Now they hope to rediscover and rekindle passion in the dunes.But this will be a day for death as well as kisses, a day when murder and eternity will fail to put an end to love...
language: English
title: Being Dead
titlecomplete: Being Dead
genres: British Literature, Mystery, Novels, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Death, Fiction, Book Club, Crime
ratings_count: 5070
places: United Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books