Schwab, no.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue It is like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket. Praise for TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea: So when he’s given one week to pass through the door to the other side, Wallace sets about living a lifetime in just seven days.įans of A Man Called Ove and The Good Place will fall for this queer love story by TJ Klune. The feeling grows as he shares jokes with the resident ghost, manifests embarrassing footwear and notices the stars. But as Wallace drinks tea with Hugo and talks to his customers, he wonders if he was missing something. He’d had no time for frivolities like fun and friends. Yet even in death, he refuses to abandon his life – even though Wallace spent all of it working, correcting colleagues and hectoring employees. Then when Hugo, owner of a most peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace reluctantly accepts the truth. But he begins to suspect she’s right, and he is in fact dead. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own sparsely-attended funeral, Wallace is outraged. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh and the dead are just passing through. TJ Klune brings us a warm hug of a story about a man who spent his life at the office - and his afterlife building a home.įrom the author of joyous New York Times bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. Witty, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is a gift for troubled times.

Under the whispering door by tj klune