A Trick I Learned from Dead Men

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Description

Longlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction 2013After the disappearance of their father and the sudden death of their mother, Lee Hart and his deaf brother, Ned, imagine all is lost until Lee starts an apprenticeship at the local funeral home. Here, in the company of a crooning ex-publican, a closet pole vaulter, a terminally-ill hearse driver, and the dead of their local town, old wounds begin to heal and love arrives as a beautiful florist aboard a ‘Fleurtations’ delivery van, and Lee discovers there is life after death after all.

Additional information

Weight 0.16 kg
Dimensions 1.4 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

224

Publisher

Year Published

2013-7-4

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

009957019X

About The Author

Kitty Aldridge was born in the Middle East but grew up in England. A graduate of the Drama Centre, London, she has since worked in theatre, film, and television as an actress and writer. Her first novel, Pop (Cape, 2001), was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002 and shortlisted for the Pendleton May First Novel Award 2002. Her second novel, Cryers Hill, was published by Cape in 2007. Her short story, Arrivederci Les, won the Bridport Short Story Prize 2011 (Bridport Prize Anthology 2011).

Both tragic yet somehow life-affirming, her novel holds you to the end

Other text

A dark, but oddly funny novel… Sad, funny and very moving

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