Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead Av Emily Austin

<p><b>''Funny about death, real about anxiety, witty about the things that worry us the most'' Emma Gannon, author of </b><i><b>Olive</b></i><br><br><b>''So fundamentally kind that you can feel the warmth coming off each page'' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of <i>Starling Days</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>A blend of warmth, deadpan humour, and pitch-perfect observations about the human condition, <i>Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead</i> is a crackling explor