Accabadora - Michela Murgia This new volume of ten

This new volume of ten short stories

the hospital

Henry sees things differently to Tara: he does not think that time will put itself back together and he does not think that the future will come around

In an Italian monastery

Accabadora - Michela Murgia This new volume of tenWhen Maria, the fourth child of a widow, is adopted by the old and childless Bonaria Urrai, her life is instantly transformed she finally has the love and affection she craves. But her new 'soul mother' is keeping something hidden from her, a secret life that is intimately bound up with Sardinia's ancient traditions and customs. Midwife to the dying, easing their suffering and sometimes ending it, she is revered and feared in equal measure as the