Dying, in Other Words is the debut novel of English author Maggie Gee, variously described as surrealist and modern gothic.

[2] According to the OUP's Good Fiction Guide, a "vividly written experimental novel" it made a "strong impression" when it was published in 1981.

[3] Containing "postmodernist gimmicks"[4] and self-refexive structures[5] it concerns a supposedly dead woman rewriting the story of her own death.

[7] Although in a 2012 interview Maggie Gee says that 'I see it as partly luck – the novel came out in July when nothing much was published then, the first review was a rave in The Observer, then The Times ran an extract and everyone fell into line, because critics are easily influenced.

"[1] The novel concerns the death of Moira Penny, a postgraduate literature student in Oxford,[9] whose naked body is found outside her apartment.