Hugo and Mei run a tea shop called Charon’s Crossing Tea and Treats while also helping ghosts like Wallace to move on. This is Mei’s first outing as a Reaper working solo. At his (sparsely attended) funeral, he’s greeted by Mei, a Reaper, who is there to bring him to the ferryman, Hugo Freeman. Wallace Price is an unpleasant, calculating and selfish lawyer who dies of a heart attack. When it’s time to leave, the Manager agrees to let Hugo continue to work on rescuing other Husks, and the Manager decides to bring Wallace back to life so he can work as a Reaper (herding ghosts to the tea house) alongside Hugo. He also helps to rescue Cameron, who was a “Husk” (a ghost who had lost his humanity), which were previously thought to be hopeless cases. During that time, Wallace makes amends with his ex-wife (he’s bisexual) and helps a grieving mother find closure. When Wallace overstays his time, the Manager (a god-like entity) gives Wallace a hard 7-day limit before he needs to move on. He also develops romantic feelings for Hugo. At the tea house, Wallace befriends the others there and learns to care for and sacrifice for others. He is brought to a tea house where the ferryman, Hugo, is there to help Wallace process his life and enter the doorway to the afterlife when he’s ready. It’s a beautiful book’ – Charlaine Harris, no.The two-paragraph version: Wallace is an unpleasant and selfish man who dies. Schwab, no.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue’A modern fairy tale about learning your true nature and what you love and will protect. It is like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket. Fans of A Man Called Ove and The Good Place will fall for this queer love story by TJ Klune. 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. 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. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own sparsely-attended funeral, Wallace is outraged.īut he begins to suspect she’s right, and he is in fact dead. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh and the dead are just passing through. From the author of joyous New York Times bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. 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. Witty, haunting and kind, Under the Whispering Door is a gift for troubled times.
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