This debut novel from a blazing new talent is a Faustian tale with a Gen Z edge



It's a totally unassuming Tuesday when Aggie's little sister Marcie - her favourite person, her especially made best friend - is admitted to hospital, prepared for a long stay with a bag of her softest things. It is a day Aggie has dreaded and longed for. Like crows need wings, like planets have moons, when it comes to Marcie, there's nothing she wouldn't do.







So when Death - red-lipped, feline-eyed and chignoned-to-perfection - appears in her bedroom





ready to strike a deal, Aggie doesn't have much of a choice.







Seduce the grim reaper's son, then break his heart.







Aggie hasn't so much as kissed a boy, but when Aeron turns out to be endearingly self-conscious,





surely the fact that he is someone who Aggie might actually want to kiss will only make it easier? What could go wrong?



Eloise Rodger is a 22-year-old London based writer.





She finished writing her debut novel Death's A Bitch while in the final year of her undergraduate degree at Trinity College Dublin. She was editor-in-chief of Icarus, the oldest arts journal in Ireland. She was commended in the The Moth Prize for her poem 'Half Life'.