‘STYLISH, ALLURING, UTTERLY GRIPPING’ Lisa O’Kelly, Observer

‘WONDERFULLY INVENTIVE (Evaluations WITH KATE ATKINSON ARE INEVITABLE… I COULDN’T PLACE IT DOWN’The Times

‘LIKE Nothing at all YOU HAVE EVER Go through BEFORE’ Red

Lauren Pailing is born in the sixties, and a child from the seventies. She is thirteen years old the first time she dies.

Lauren Pailing is an adolescent in the eighties, becomes a Londoner in the nineties. And each time she dies, brand-new lives start for the individuals who about The First Time Lauren Pailing Passed away liked her – while Lauren enters a brand new life, too.

But in each of Lauren’s lives, a man called Peter Stanning disappears. And, in each of her lives, Lauren pieces out to find him.

And so it really is that every ending is also a beginning. And so it really is that, with each new starting, Peter Stanning in . nearer to finally being discovered…

Perfect for enthusiasts of Kate Atkinson and Maggie O’Farrell, The First Time Lauren Pailing Passed away is a book about reduction, grief – and how, despite it not necessarily feeling that method, every stopping marks the start of something new.