Dearly Departed - Chip Pons Paperback / softback fearless and ultimately very moving'�JAY

fearless and ultimately very moving'�JAY McINERNEY'Moving and poignant'�ANNA WINTOURThe entertaining

From Borrower to wizard

Bingham PrizeShortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2026A boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse

But it's the best bloody place in the world

and riding the Caribbean waves like a local at Playa Cocles in Puerto Viejo

Dearly Departed - Chip Pons Paperback / softback fearless and ultimately very moving'�JAYHope is a dangerous thing for gods. Even former ones. Hayden Harlow, once the mighty Hades, has spent centuries quietly resenting his fall from immortality. Stripped of his godhood by the allegedly irreversible Immortal Retirement Act, he now runs Harlow and Sons Funeral Home a front for his eternal sentencing among mortals, and a bleak reminder of the purpose he's lost. Still, he's determined to claw his way back if only the Fates at City Hall would