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"I think it would be reasonable to suggest that the strangest and most unsettling aspect of being dead, at least in my heretofore limited experience, is how strikingly similar it is to being alive..."
Tranby Quirke has spent her life being invisible. She is a spinster: a fact that, in 1909 at the age of thirty-four, is practically synonymous with being dead. Her days are spent toiling in obscurity, lecturing to modern women—mainly to please old-fashioned men—on subjects ranging from Removing Dry Rot to Proper Cutlery Positioning. Tranby is deeply frustrated. She suppresses her sexual urges, secretly supports the Suffragette movement, and embarks on worldwide adventures—but only inside her head.
Then she meets the beautiful nineteen-year-old Lysette McDonald and love enters her life. A love that Tranby's heart and soul struggle to accommodate. A love whose name Tranby can only dare to speak after she takes the most remarkable journey of all.
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