Considering herself to be a medium of sorts, she hosts a show called “Desdemona Tripplethorne’s Sexy Seances”, and believes with all her heart that the teashop is haunted. Though her page time is minimal, Desdemona Tripplethorne makes her mark when she saunters into the teashop with a mission and an underserved sense of entitlement. However, there is one character in particular that I love and hate in equal measure. All have their strengths, their weaknesses, and I adored every moment I got to spend with them. Some are alive, some have died and haunt the tea shop that acts as a way station for the deceased, to give them a chance for rest and come to terms with their death, all while preparing them to go through the eponymous door. The world of Under the Whispering Door-where death is not an ending, but the beginning of something else entirely-is populated by characters who all have a different relationship with death. Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead.Īnd when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead.īut even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through.
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