num_pages: 302
description: Mrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel.Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford a troubled young writer is well acquainted with death but until now hadnt met Death in person  a black working-class woman who shape-shifts and does her work unseen.Enthralled by her stories Wolf becomes Mrs Deaths scribe and begins to write her memoirs. Using their desk as a vessel and conduit Wolf travels across time and place with Mrs Death to witness deaths of past and present and discuss what the future holds for humanity. As the two reflect on the losses they have experienced  or in the case of Mrs Death facilitated  their friendship grows into a surprising affirmation of hope resilience and love. All the while despite her world-weariness Death must continue to hold humans fates in her hands appearing in our lives when we least expect her . . .
language: English
title: Mrs Death Misses Death
publisher: Canongate Books Ltd.