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  • Published: 14 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804949115
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $22.99
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The Love of My Afterlife




How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days meets The Good Place. A hilarious and heartwarming story about finding love where you least expect it and learning what it really means to live...

‘This book has it all. Humor, heart, and a heroine I was desperately rooting for. Kirsty Greenwood has a new fan!’ Colleen Hoover
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If she wasn’t dead already, Delphie would be dying of embarrassment. She’s entered the afterlife wearing the sort of pyjamas you don’t want anyone to see and finds herself face-to-face with the most handsome man she’s ever encountered. And he’s smiling at her.

As they start to chat, everything else becomes background noise – until someone comes running out of a door, yelling something about a huge mistake, and sends the dreamy stranger back down to earth.

In a twist of fate, Delphie is offered a deal in which she can return to her previous life and reconnect with the mysterious man she’s sure is her soulmate.

The challenge? She only has ten days to find him.

Ten days to make him fall for her.

Oh, and he has no recollection of them ever having met…
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Praise for The Love of My Afterlife:

‘Quirky and romantic and oh so gorgeously memorable – I only wish I’d written it first! I lost a whole day to it and I don’t regret a second’ Josie Silver

‘A gorgeously addictive romp of a romantic comedy, with added magic. I adored it’ Clare Pooley

How To Lose a Guy in Ten Days meets The Good Place … Original and romantic – I loved it’ Sophie Cousens

'Utter joy. Funny and relatable' Prima

‘An utterly charming romcom that is as hilarious as it is poignant. Reading this book is like receiving a big hug from a dear friend’ Carley Fortune

‘A romantic, tender and hilarious page-turner. Every page will bring you joy’ Cathy Bramley

‘Kirsty writes like a witty dream. She’s the real deal.’ Mhairi McFarlane

‘Reading it is like hanging out with your funniest and cleverest best friend – I never wanted it to end’ Isabelle Broom

'This book is a perfect summer read – it’s light, funny, with enough emotional depth to allow you to become truly invested in the characters' Sunday Express

The Love of My Afterlife is my dream book and I can’t wait for everyone on the planet to read and love it as much as me’ Lucy Vine

‘One of the most life-affirming books I’ve read’ Cressida McLaughlin

‘One of the best, most hilarious and unique romcoms I’ve read in a long time!! Kirsty Greenwood absolutely killed it!’ Amy Lea

‘So smart and so joyous’ Lia Louis

‘Kirsty Greenwood is the funniest, freshest romcom writer in the genre’ Cesca Major

‘Funny, joyful, uplifting, page-turning and unpredictable. This will undoubtedly be one of the biggest books of 2024’ Becky Hunter

‘I'm going to be telling every person in my life to read this book’ Alicia Thompson

‘A truly dreamy love story. I adored every page’ Uzma Jalaluddin

'Utter joy' Prima

  • Published: 14 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804949115
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

About the author

Kirsty Greenwood

Kirsty Greenwood is a best selling author of funny, fearless romantic comedies about extraordinary love. When she’s not writing books she composes musicals and explores London where she lives with her husband.

Praise for The Love of My Afterlife

'Confident and hilarious, I lost a whole day to it and I don't regret a second ... Quirky and romantic and oh so gorgeously memorable - I only wish I'd written it first!'

Josie Silver

'The Love of My Afterlife made me cackle like a maniac, but it's packed with gut-punching raw emotion too, and so much beautiful truth'

Isabelle Broom

'Kirsty writes like a witty dream. She's the real deal'

Mhairi McFarlane

'Kirsty's writing delivers everything I want in a novel: clever dialogue, unforgettable characters, emotional depth and a big smile on my face'

Cathy Bramley

'Kirsty is a genius at making me laugh out loud on one page, and sob my heart out the next. Her books are funny, wise, kind and perceptive, deliciously romantic, and have the biggest heart'

Cressida McLaughlin

‘This book has it all. Humor, heart, and a heroine I was desperately rooting for. Kirsty Greenwood has a new fan!’

Colleen Hoover

‘Funny, joyful, uplifting, page-turning and unpredictable. This will undoubtedly be one of the biggest books of 2024’

Becky Hunter

‘I'm going to be telling every person in my life to read this book’

Alicia Thompson

‘A truly dreamy love story. I adored every page’

Uzma Jalaluddin

‘An utterly charming romcom that is as hilarious as it is poignant. Reading this book is like receiving a big hug from a dear friend’

Carley Fortune

‘A gorgeously addictive romp of a romantic comedy, with added magic. I adored it’

Clare Pooley

How To Lose a Guy in Ten Days meets The Good Place … Original and romantic – I loved it’

Sophie Cousens

‘So smart and so joyous’

Lia Louis

‘Kirsty Greenwood is the funniest, freshest romcom writer in the genre’

Cesca Major

‘Most people devour books, but this book devoured me. From page one, I was totally enchanted and couldn’t stop. I laughed so much and felt so much. The characters are fun and relatable and I never wanted any of it to end. The Love of My Afterlife is my dream book and I can’t wait for everyone on the planet to read and love it as much as me’

Lucy Vine

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Kirsty Greenwood on blending fantastical elements with big-city life in The Love of My Afterlife

Author Kirsty Greenwood shares why she wanted to write about the challenges of making friends as an adult, which parts of writing were most challenging, and what she hopes readers take away from the book.

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