Sister Agatha, Domhnall ODonoghue
Sister Agatha, Domhnall ODonoghue
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Sister Agatha
The World's Oldest Serial Killer

Author: Domhnall O'Donoghue

Narrator: Caroline Lennon

Unabridged: 6 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/13/2026


Synopsis

She’s 118 years old, four steps from glory and now she’s done playing nice.Sister Agatha has lived a long, saintly life across three centuries—only to be told, during a routinecheck–up, that she’s got just one week left to live. It’s a bit of an inconvenience, really. You see,Sister Agatha once made a vow: to be the oldest person in the world. At last count, she was in fifthplace. So close . . . But where there’s a will, there’s a way, and the super-centenarian creates a bold Plan B.Armed with little more than rosary beads, a fertile imagination and old–fashioned determination,Sister Agatha sets off on one final mission: to meet the four people standing between her andimmortality and to gently expedite their demise. After all, vows are sacred.And Sister Agatha? She will not go quietly . . .

Reviews

Goodreads review by Irene on February 16, 2018

This was a fun read with typical Irish charm, and (slightly) twisted tongue-in-cheek humour. After being thwarted in love at the age of nineteen, Sister Agatha joins a convent. Now at 118 years of age she is the fifth oldest person in the world, and with a supposed one week left to live - if you bel......more

Goodreads review by Ellen on June 18, 2021

Completely ridiculous but in a good way.......more

Goodreads review by loopyloulaura on August 06, 2022

Sister Agatha is 118 and the fifth oldest living person. She believes she only has a week left to live and it is her ambition to be the oldest in the world. She has a week to kill off the four people older than herself... What a book! Sister Agatha is an absolutely fantastic novel, packed with advent......more

Goodreads review by Renata on June 23, 2022

Sister Agatha ranks fifth among the oldest people in the world. On realizing she doesn’t have much time left to live, she embarks on a quest to make it to the top of the list. She has never stepped outside Ireland all her life, and now needs to travel across the world to meet her four targets. As th......more

Goodreads review by Iosua on November 08, 2016

What an exciting debut novel from a clearly talented author who lives up to the Irish stereotype of having the gift of the gab. In Sister Agatha, he has created a character that one cannot but adore with her wit, her power, her determination, her spontaneity and her warmth. How refreshing in this day......more