Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

‘Funny about death, real about anxiety, witty about the things that worry us the most’ – Emma Gannon, author of Olive

‘So fundamentally kind that you can feel the warmth coming off each page’ – Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Starling Days

Gilda cannot stop thinking about death. Desperate for relief from her anxious mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local church and finds herself abruptly hired to replace the deceased receptionist Grace. It’s not the most obvious job – she’s queer and an atheist for starters – and so in between trying to learn mass, hiding her new maybe-girlfriend and conducting an amateur investigation into Grace’s death, Gilda must avoid revealing the truth of her mortifying existence.

A blend of warmth, deadpan humour, and pitch-perfect observations about the human condition, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling exploration of what it takes to stay afloat in a world where your expiration – and the expiration of those you love – is the only certainty.

Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Imprint: Atlantic Books UK
Publication date: 02/06/2022