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INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAN OBSERVER DEBUT OF 2022AS FEATURED ON FRONT ROWIncredibly moving. Exquisitely crafted." BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons in Chemistry Moving... We were consumed by this story of healing and hope. Woman & HomeA crescendo of pain and beauty that took my breath away. Brava! MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER, author of The Paper Palace I LOVE IT! Utterly and completely brilliant. JOANNA CANNON, author of A Tidy EndingIts a long time since Ive read a debut novel that moved me so much. RACHEL JOYCE, Miss Bensons BeetleIts utterly magnificent and had to pull car over twice to cry. Intricate cobweb of love, family and friendship, so delicately wrought. Beautiful. A masterclass in character. VERONICA HENRYWhen we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . .It is October 1966 and William Lavery is having the night of his life at his first blacktie 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 giving so much to others can sometimes help us heal ourselves.What readers are saying One stunning read to remember. ...
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