Karen Kendrick (Spoken Label, February 2025)

Latest up and the first Podcast from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features Karen Kendrick. Karen is a writer and creative writing teacher from the North West of England.She writes poetry and fiction which straddle the boundary between reality and fantasy. She lives in Astley, Greater Manchester with her husband, two sons, a dog and a snake, and many plants. Afterwards is her first novel.Afterwards is "She knows she is dead because she remembers dying. The afterlife is not what she had expected - she has awoken into a nightmare, in which everything seems hell-bent on killing her all over again. She is the only one who remembers what life was like before death and she has no idea why.Also, Girl has a secret. A secret which could end this strange world she has found herself in, if she manages to survive for long enough. As she begins to learn the horrifying truth about Afterwards, she is propelled into a journey which will change everything she thinks she knows about herself.Grim in places, Karen Kendrick's Afterwards is also fast-paced and emotionally challenging.The only way to beat the game is to keep moving forwards, even if it means the end of the world."The book is available here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Afterwards-K-M-Kendrick/dp/1914199669