The perfect blend of macabre and funny' Buzzfeed Most Anticipated Books of 2021 'So
fundamentally kind that you can feel the warmth coming off each page' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
author of Starling Days Meet Gilda. She 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.
