In this novel, TJ Klune explores not only what lies “beyond the veil' but the paths we choose along our journey. After Wallace Price dies, he finally learns to live. He will realize how badly he had prioritized his life and how sometimes it is the smallest things that have the greatest impact on others. It is here that Mei introduces Wallace to Hugo Freeman, who is a ferryman, and will assist Wallace as he “transitions” to what will follow.ĭuring his time at Charon’s Crossing, Wallace will discover things he’s never known, or long forgotten. She explains his new “status” and escorts him from the city, in which he lived and worked, to a small town, and ultimately to a place called Charon’s Crossing Tea and Treats.

He was not particularly old and was in fairly good health, although his heart clearly had the final word on that subject.Īt his funeral he meets Mei, who is a Reaper. He is a person of privilege with everything he wants or needs, and then suddenly, he isn’t. 'A modern fairy tale about learning your true nature and what you love and will protect.Wallace Price is a successful, driven attorney, and a founding partner of a powerful law firm. Schwab, number one New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue It is like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket. 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.įans of A Man Called Ove and The Good Place will fall for this queer love story by TJ Klune. 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. But he begins to suspect she’s right, and he is in fact dead.

When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own sparsely-attended funeral, Wallace is outraged.

The tea is hot, the scones are fresh and the dead are just passing through. 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.įrom the author of joyous New York Times bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. Witty, haunting and kind, Under the Whispering Door is a gift for troubled times.

Wallace under the whispering door