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  • Whose making these calls?

  • It starts with a phone call and someone saying "Remember, you must die." We never find out who is making the phone calls. But it's an interesting look at how people will react and what goes on in their lives. The things they hide from others.

    I loved the book because of it's open ended myst ... Continue

    It starts with a phone call and someone saying "Remember, you must die." We never find out who is making the phone calls. But it's an interesting look at how people will react and what goes on in their lives. The things they hide from others.

    I loved the book because of it's open ended mystery.

    

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Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone informs each, "Remember you must die." Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled by these seemingly supernatural phone calls, and in the resulting flurry many old secrets are dusted off. Beneath the once decorous surface of their lives, unsavories like blackmail and adultery are now to be glimpsed. As spooky as it is witty, poignant and wickedly hilarious, Memento Mori may ostensibly concern death, but it is a book which leaves one relishing life all the more.

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