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ALL THE LIVING AND THE DEAD - HAYLEY CAMPBELL T...

'A superlative piece of writing... provocative  loving and profound' THE TIMES 'Without
exaggeration  an awe-inspiring achievement' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Moving  funny  and liable to
unexpectedly cause me to tear up' NEIL GAIMAN An Irish Times Book of the Year In this
profoundly moving and remarkable book  journalist Hayley Campbell explores society's attitudes
towards death  and the impact on those who work with it every day. 'If the reason we're
outsourcing this burden is because it's too much for us ' she asks  'how do they deal with it?'
Would facing death directly make us fear it less? Inspired by her own childhood fascination
with the subject  she meets embalmers and a former death row executioner  mass fatality
investigators and a bereavement midwife. She talks to gravediggers who have already dug their
own graves and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear. Through
Campbell's incisive and candid interviews with people who see death every day  she asks: Does
seeing death change you as a person? And are we all missing something vital by letting death
remain hidden? 'Essential  compassionate  honest' Audrey Niffenegger  author of THE TIME
TRAVELER'S WIFE 'Never macabre... poignant... Transformative' FINANCIAL TIMES

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