A Trick I Learned from Dead Men
by Kitty Aldridge
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Pub Date 5 Jul 2012 | Archive Date 19 May 2013
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
Longlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction 2013
After 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.
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition - available fro readers in the UK, Commonwealth and Europe, excluding Canada.
UK edition - available fro readers in the UK, Commonwealth and Europe, excluding Canada.
Advance Praise
'Aldridge
is a skilled observer and the novel is full of detailed, sometimes
strangely beautiful descriptions... Aldridge shows her eye for detail:
there is joy to be found in the mundanities of day-to-day life' Times Literary Supplement
'A wonderfully funny, original novel. It is a testament to Aldridge's writing that she manages to create a convincing and expansive universe in such a modest space. In writing about lives and deaths reduced to their smallest elements she has created something joyous and life-affirming' Guardian
'Life presents Lee with nothing but adversity, yet he never gives up, and Aldridge’s punchy style captures his matter-of-fact voice perfectly as he fights on with moving determination. Both tragic yet somehow life-affirming, her novel holds you to the end' Sunday Times
'A wonderfully funny, original novel. It is a testament to Aldridge's writing that she manages to create a convincing and expansive universe in such a modest space. In writing about lives and deaths reduced to their smallest elements she has created something joyous and life-affirming' Guardian
'Life presents Lee with nothing but adversity, yet he never gives up, and Aldridge’s punchy style captures his matter-of-fact voice perfectly as he fights on with moving determination. Both tragic yet somehow life-affirming, her novel holds you to the end' Sunday Times
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An astonishing new novel on life and death with
the most wonderful voice at its heart. From the winner of the Bridport
Short Story Prize 2011.
'The most perfectly formed, originally voiced, heartbreakingly real story I've read in years. I laughed, I cried, and mostly I just marvelled at how bloody brilliant this book is.' Mariella Frostrup
'The most perfectly formed, originally voiced, heartbreakingly real story I've read in years. I laughed, I cried, and mostly I just marvelled at how bloody brilliant this book is.' Mariella Frostrup
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781446496466 |
| PRICE | £12.98 (GBP) |
