Author: Katy Colins
Format reviewed: Ebook
Source: Netgalley
Publisher: HQ
Publication Date: 13th June 2019
Rating: 4 Stars
No one is ever happy to see Grace Salmon.
As a funeral arranger, she’s responsible for steering strangers through the hardest day of their lives. It’s not a task many would want – but, for Grace, giving people the chance to say a proper goodbye to the ones they love is the most important job in the world.
From the flowers in the church to the drinks served at the wake,Grace knows it’s the personal touches that count – and it’s amazing what you can find out about someone from their grieving relatives … or their Facebook page. But when she accidentally finds out too much about someone who’s died, Grace is finally forced to step out of the shadows… and start living.
As a funeral arranger, she’s responsible for steering strangers through the hardest day of their lives. It’s not a task many would want – but, for Grace, giving people the chance to say a proper goodbye to the ones they love is the most important job in the world.
From the flowers in the church to the drinks served at the wake,Grace knows it’s the personal touches that count – and it’s amazing what you can find out about someone from their grieving relatives … or their Facebook page. But when she accidentally finds out too much about someone who’s died, Grace is finally forced to step out of the shadows… and start living.
For a book that has a funeral arranger as its main character and is all about creating the perfect goodbye, and grief, it is surprisingly not depressing at all, and in fact rather uplifting and a sensitive look at the topic.
If Grace has any faults it would be caring too much, she is clearly struggling to come to terms with things in her personal life, but at the same time is giving her all at work in order to create memorable send offs for the departed for all the right reasons.
She even stalks the deceased's social media to be able to add a more personalised touch to each funeral.
Grace doesn't have the largest group of friends, but those she has are completely wonderful, and a rather eclectic group.
There is far more to book than I'm really able to find the words to describe properly in this review. Rest assured, that it's a rather touching story, and I was interested to see what different people want for funerals, memorials and how they grieve.
Having thoroughly enjoyed the authors's Lonely Hearts Travel Club series, which is a lot more light hearted than this, I was very happy to see that she is able to write in multiple styles and still tell a fabulous story.
Thank you to HQ and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
If Grace has any faults it would be caring too much, she is clearly struggling to come to terms with things in her personal life, but at the same time is giving her all at work in order to create memorable send offs for the departed for all the right reasons.
She even stalks the deceased's social media to be able to add a more personalised touch to each funeral.
Grace doesn't have the largest group of friends, but those she has are completely wonderful, and a rather eclectic group.
There is far more to book than I'm really able to find the words to describe properly in this review. Rest assured, that it's a rather touching story, and I was interested to see what different people want for funerals, memorials and how they grieve.
Having thoroughly enjoyed the authors's Lonely Hearts Travel Club series, which is a lot more light hearted than this, I was very happy to see that she is able to write in multiple styles and still tell a fabulous story.
Thank you to HQ and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
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