Cliterature, the Vagina Museum's book club, offers you a generous and satisfying fingering through the feminist pages. Well include a mixture of fiction, non-fiction, essays and poetry. Everyone is welcome. Our book club is led by former trustee, Niharika Jain. About the book Mrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted by her job and now seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. She meets Wolf, a troubled young writer, who enthralled by her stories begins to write Mrs Deaths memoirs. As the two reflect on the losses they have experienced (or facilitated), their friendship flourishes. All the while, despite her world-weariness, Death must continue to hold humans fates in her hands, appearing in our lives when we least expect her Winner of the Indie Book Award for Fiction, Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. About the author Salena Godden FRSL is an award-winning author, poet and broadcaster of Jamaican-mixed heritage based in London. Her debut novel Mrs Death Misses Death won the Indie Book Award for Fiction and the Peoples Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards and the Gordon Burn Prize. Film and TV rights for Mrs Death Misses Death have been optioned by Idris Elbas production company Green Door Pictures. Godden has been shortlisted for the 4thWrite short story prize and the Ted Hughes Prize. Her work has been widely anthologised and broadcast on radio, TV and film. Her poem Pessimism Is for Lightweights is on permanent display at the Peoples History Museum, Manchester. She was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.

Useful information: If you can, try to get your hands on a copy via your local independent bookshop or library as a physical book, e-book or audiobook.

As this is a participatory event by nature, not a performance, anyone who doesn't engage - which can via audio, text, or any method accessible to you - will be automatically removed to ensure safety of all participants. Dont worry if youve not finished the book in time for the session, having read some or most of it will help you take part in our discussion.

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