When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . 'I LOVE IT! Utterly and completely brilliant.' JOANNA CANNON. It is October 1966 and William Lavery is having the night of his life at his first black-tie do. But, as the evening unfolds, news hits of a landslide at a coal mine. It has buried a school: Aberfan. William decides he must act, so he stands and volunteers to attend. It will be his first job as an embalmer, and it will be one he never forgets. His work that night will force him to think about the little boy he was, and the losses he has worked so hard to forget. But compassion can have surprising consequences, because - as William discovers...
Publisher: Faber & Faber; Main edition (20 Jan. 2022) Pages: 400 pages ISBN-10: 0571368298 ISBN-13: 978-0571368297 ASIN: B094674G1X
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