Anna Burns

Femme is under a magic spell to kill her lover, Hero. Hero is on a mission to discover if Femme’s Great Aunt - the old lady who lives alone in a skyscraper - is his own disreputable grandmother. Master villain Great Aunt needs to know whether or not her favourite niece, Femme, is in love with her arch-enemy, Hero. Meantime, Freddie, Femme’s lovelorn cousin, must seek out and destroy Great Aunt otherwise his sweet-natured fiancée, Monique Frostique, absolutely refuses to marry him. This novella has it all: life, death, life after death, life in spite of death, love, truth, deception, good guys, bad guys and the guy who considered himself good but now isn’t so sure. 

An entertaining and strangely spiritual tale.

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Pola Schwöbel

Sebastian Stockmarr

Three decades later, having surmounted her feelings of jealousy and rejection, having rebuilt her overweening world outlook which had been all but destroyed by a soppy falling in love outlook, Great Aunt then had her own day of carnage, of which, by then, only a smidgeon had been dedicated to revenge. The revenge part bad been a freebie for her murdered, now forgiven, ex-lover for the time they had been together.

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