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The Life of Death by Lucy Booth

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The Life of Death

Author
Lucy Booth
Narrator
Cathleen McCarron
Publisher
Isis Audio
Publish Date
1 July 2019
Run Time
8 hours 53 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Fiction: general and literary

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Elizabeth Murray has been condemned to burn at the stake when a strange man visits her. He offers her a deal: her soul in return for immortality. What he offers is not a normal life. To survive, Elizabeth must become Death. Elizabeth must ease the passing of all those who die, using her compassion to guide them. She accepts and, for 500 years, whirls from one death to the next. Until one day, everything changes. She ñ Death ñ falls in love. Desperate to escape from her deal, she summons the man who saved her. He agrees to release her the condition that she gives him five lives. These five lives she must take herself.

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Details
Author
Lucy Booth
Narrator
Cathleen McCarron
Duration
8 hours 53 minutes
Release Date
1 July 2019
ISBN
9781445083308
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Isis Audio
Genre
Fiction: general and literary

Synopsis

Elizabeth Murray has been condemned to burn at the stake when a strange man visits her. He offers her a deal: her soul in return for immortality. What he offers is not a normal life. To survive, Elizabeth must become Death. Elizabeth must ease the passing of all those who die, using her compassion to guide them. She accepts and, for 500 years, whirls from one death to the next. Until one day, everything changes. She ñ Death ñ falls in love. Desperate to escape from her deal, she summons the man who saved her. He agrees to release her the condition that she gives him five lives. These five lives she must take herself.

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