R.I.P. is a darkly comic novel told from beyond the grave. Retired bank manager George Pearmain appears to be dead, yet he finds himself hovering unseen around his own funeral gathering, witnessing every awkward interaction and secret unspoken by his family and friends. With his mother also apparently dead and his loved ones preparing what should have been her ninetyninth birthday celebration, George's afterlife vantage point reveals the absurdities, hypocrisies, and hidden truths of the relationships he thought he knew. Part ghost story, part family drama, and wholly hilarious and poignant, R.I.P. asks the surreal question: what if you could bear witness to your own demise?, and along the way uncovers unexpected insights into love, mortality, and the peculiar ways we try to make sense of life when those we've lost are still very close to us. Nigel Williams is a British writer of novels, plays and screenplays, known for his humorous and sharp literary voice. In R.I.P., he combines his ability to observe human relationships with an absurdist and witty perspective on life and death, characteristic of his work in modern fiction. His oeuvre includes several novels and plays that often play with identity, family dynamics and cultural criticism.