The Life of Life
- 25 Mar 2027
- 9781837260287
- £18.99
- 416 pp
- 141×220mm
- 25 Mar 2027
- 9781837260294
- £15.19
- 416 pp
- 25 Mar 2027
- 9781837260300
- £25
In a few words
A wonderfully strange, life-affirming trip of a novel about finding Love and Hope – from award-winning poet Salena Godden
In a few words
A wonderfully strange, life-affirming trip of a novel about finding Love and Hope – from award-winning poet Salena Godden
In a few words
A wonderfully strange, life-affirming trip of a novel about finding Love and Hope – from award-winning poet Salena Godden
Praise for Mrs Death Misses Death:
A fantastically imaginative story about life, death and everything in between – a potent reminder that life is short and every second should be cherished
Idris Elba
A modern-day Pilgrim’s Progress leavened with caustic wit . . . This is not light-hearted stuff, yet Godden has produced a miraculously light-hearted novel . . . an elegant, occasionally uproarious, danse macabre
Praise for Mrs Death Misses Death:
A fantastically imaginative story about life, death and everything in between – a potent reminder that life is short and every second should be cherished
Idris Elba
A modern-day Pilgrim’s Progress leavened with caustic wit . . . This is not light-hearted stuff, yet Godden has produced a miraculously light-hearted novel . . . an elegant, occasionally uproarious, danse macabre
Praise for Mrs Death Misses Death:
A fantastically imaginative story about life, death and everything in between – a potent reminder that life is short and every second should be cherished
Idris Elba
A modern-day Pilgrim’s Progress leavened with caustic wit . . . This is not light-hearted stuff, yet Godden has produced a miraculously light-hearted novel . . . an elegant, occasionally uproarious, danse macabre
More about
the book
It is the summer solstice, and Life is busy preparing for her millennial midsummers feast.
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.
More about
the book
It is the summer solstice, and Life is busy preparing for her millennial midsummers feast.
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.
More about
the book
It is the summer solstice, and Life is busy preparing for her millennial midsummers feast.
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.
Praise for Mrs Death Misses Death:
Exquisite. A daring, poetic offering that establishes Godden as one of our most exciting voices. I loved it
Irenosen Okojie
A rhythmic and powerful poetic meditation on death, life and love and the hidden mysteries of the universe; both playful and sombre, hilarious and human
Nikesh Shukla
In this timely and exquisite meditation on breath and its best rhyme, we see a stunning performance poet crowding all the energy, wisdom, passion and laughs of her live work into the solid ingot of this astounding novel, as profound as Cohen, as playful as Brautigan. Salena Goddess, more like
Alan Moore
It’s light, it’s dark, it’s twisted and it’s brilliant. As we all encounter life, so too we should all encounter Mrs Death. Poetry, prose, life and death. Salena Godden brings them together with ease. She is a wordsmith of the highest order
Benjamin Zephaniah
Praise for Mrs Death Misses Death:
Exquisite. A daring, poetic offering that establishes Godden as one of our most exciting voices. I loved it
Irenosen Okojie
A rhythmic and powerful poetic meditation on death, life and love and the hidden mysteries of the universe; both playful and sombre, hilarious and human
Nikesh Shukla
In this timely and exquisite meditation on breath and its best rhyme, we see a stunning performance poet crowding all the energy, wisdom, passion and laughs of her live work into the solid ingot of this astounding novel, as profound as Cohen, as playful as Brautigan. Salena Goddess, more like
Alan Moore
It’s light, it’s dark, it’s twisted and it’s brilliant. As we all encounter life, so too we should all encounter Mrs Death. Poetry, prose, life and death. Salena Godden brings them together with ease. She is a wordsmith of the highest order
Benjamin Zephaniah
Praise for Mrs Death Misses Death:
Exquisite. A daring, poetic offering that establishes Godden as one of our most exciting voices. I loved it
Irenosen Okojie
A rhythmic and powerful poetic meditation on death, life and love and the hidden mysteries of the universe; both playful and sombre, hilarious and human
Nikesh Shukla
In this timely and exquisite meditation on breath and its best rhyme, we see a stunning performance poet crowding all the energy, wisdom, passion and laughs of her live work into the solid ingot of this astounding novel, as profound as Cohen, as playful as Brautigan. Salena Goddess, more like
Alan Moore
It’s light, it’s dark, it’s twisted and it’s brilliant. As we all encounter life, so too we should all encounter Mrs Death. Poetry, prose, life and death. Salena Godden brings them together with ease. She is a wordsmith of the highest order
Benjamin Zephaniah
Salena Godden
View profileSalena 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.
salenagodden.co.uk | @salena.godden
Salena Godden
View profileSalena 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.
salenagodden.co.uk | @salena.godden
Salena Godden
View profileSalena 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
