Under the Whispering Door Under the Whispering Door

Under the Whispering Door

    • 4.3 • 35 Ratings
    • $9.99

Publisher Description

When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own sparsely-attended funeral, Wallace is outraged. But he begins to suspect she's right, and he is in fact dead. Then when Hugo, owner of a most peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace reluctantly accepts the truth.

Yet even in death, he refuses to abandon his life - even though Wallace spent all of it working, correcting colleagues and hectoring employees. He'd had no time for frivolities like fun and friends.

But as Wallace drinks tea with Hugo and talks to his customers, he wonders if he was missing something. The feeling grows as he shares jokes with the resident ghost, manifests embarrassing footwear and notices the stars. So when he's given one week to pass through the door to the other side, Wallace sets about living a lifetime in just seven days.

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2021
28 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
505
Pages
PUBLISHER
Pan Macmillan UK
SELLER
Macmillan Publishers Australia and Pan Macmillan Australia
SIZE
1.5
MB

Customer Reviews

CruzeBatcheldor ,

Ugly cry

This book absolutely destroyed me. I haven’t cried like that for a while. It wasn’t that it was necessarily super sad, but it was really just the small moments that get you. Please read this book. It’s an adorable journey that I wish never had to end.

an-jael ,

Hope and Tears and Smiles.

As happens every time I read a book that’s deeply emotional I struggle to find the words that explain... the book, how I feel, how it has affected me... everything. And TJ’s books will do it time and time again.

We meet Wallace who is a very unpleasant man. His work is everything to him, as is the efficiency of his employees. If they make a mistake, they’re gone. No excuses. No matter the circumstance, they’re gone.

And then Wallace’s life is turned upside-down. And Wallace truly begins to learn the beauty that is life in the face of death.

For those of us who have had to let go of a loved one and are not in the first flush of youth (nor in the second, if there is such a thing), this book, the words TJ uses, the life he breathes into Wallace, Hugo, Mei, Nelson and Apollo as he tells their story, all meld into a wonderful Hope.

And I see Humanity at its best.

TJ Klune is a gifted and a generous writer.

5 stars

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