In this Strange World, Tequila Leila has died. But she is not alone. ‘This new world seems strange to her and strangely familiar.’ She struggles to make sense of it and find a home. In this first book of a trilogy, the reader is taken on a journey through an afterlife that is both otherworldly and chillingly familiar.
In the first minute after death, consciousness continues to ebb–like the tide receding from the shore. The brain cells, having run out of blood, are deprived of oxygen. But they do not shut down. Not right away. In fact, Leila’s innermost mind is left completely exposed to view and experiment with in those precious moments before death. Now she has a chance to discover what matters and what doesn’t in life–and to change history forever…
Suspicion and paranoia descend on a newsroom as words are misinterpreted, suspicions arise, and employees scramble to survive. At first, it seems like a bad joke. But then strange things begin happening around the building. Once again, they have to rely on each other – only this time more than ever – because they are trapped in Strange World Headquarters, and even help from outside the building might not be enough to keep them safe.
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An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour
‘In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila’s consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now entirely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away.
For Leila, each minute after her death brings a sensuous memory: the taste of spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the long-awaited birth of a son; the sight of bubbling vats of lemon and sugar which the women use to wax their legs while the men attend mosque; the scent of cardamom coffee that Leila shares with a handsome student in the brothel where she works. Each memory, too, recalls the friends she made at each critical moment in her life – friends who are now desperately trying to find her.
