****Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends**.** *"Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer."* Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her
Sister Agatha: The World's Oldest Serial Killer
β Scribed by O'Donoghue, Domhnall
- Book ID
- 109198037
- Publisher
- Tirgearr Publishing
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 425 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Sister Agatha is a colossal 118 years of age, whose vim and vigour would put the most robust athletes to shame. During a routine check-up, however, her doctor claims she has just a week to live, news that proves to be quite inconvenient, seeing as the beloved sister has one ambition in life: to be the oldest person in the world. At last count, she was the fifth.However, never one to admit defeat, Sister Agatha concocts a bold Plan B. Dusting off her passport, she decides to leave Irish shores for the first time in her very long life, and using the few days remaining, plans to travel across three continents and meet the only four people whose birthday cakes boast more candles than hers.And then, one by one, she intends on killing them.
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