Memento mori
Original title: Memento Mori
earliest edition we have, 1959 Penguin, 1961 paperback 2220 pages
Diogenes-Taschenbuch -- 22921 : Das literarische Taschenbuch
Dame Lettie Colston, seventy-nine, O.B.E. and pioneer penal reformer, has much in common with the elderly residents of the Maud Long Medical Ward. All are united by scorn, resentment, boredom--and the maudlin humour that masks the awareness of impending death. Then the insidious telephone calls begin. 'Remember, you must die,' intones the grave, anonymous voice. As the suspicious recipients set out to unravel the...
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