Undertaking Life

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Gothic Fiction, Literary Fiction, LGBT Fiction, and Novels

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Suicide, Death, and Violence

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Sep 1, 2025

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480 pages

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Undertaking Life

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On the eve of his seventh birthday, Daniel loses his father. Amidst the sea of sorrow at the funeral, an unexpected burst of laughter breaks the silence, drawing him deeper into the graveyard. There, in the cemetery’s quiet twilight, he encounters Julia—a girl with frost on her fingertips and eyes that seem to guard secrets from another realm. Drawn together into an unlikely friendship, Daniel and Julia find refuge in a place where the boundaries between the living and the dead blur. As Daniel grows older, he finds himself returning again and again, not to escape reality, but to create a family from those long forgotten. Every choice he makes begins to ripple outward, reshaping not just his fate, but the lives—and afterlives—of everyone caught in his orbit.

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Genres

Gothic Fiction, Literary Fiction, LGBT Fiction, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Suicide, Death, and Violence

Type of Ending

Series

Not part of a series

Author Prefers A Review On

Goodreads or Amazon

Reader Spots Remaining

Number of days to read

Publication Date

Sep 1, 2025

Page Length

480 pages

Available Formats

ePub and PDF

Author

I'm an expat living in Belgium and working a way too technical consultancy job, bouncing around between manufacturing sites, usually all over Europe.

I started writing when I was little, because it hooked me like little else did. And also like little else, it managed to keep me hooked for longer than I expected.

I write to make sense of my life. I find it very therapeutic.

My first novel is Sweet Salt Air, published in May 2021.