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Title: Grave TalkAuthor: Nick SpaldingFormat reviewed: EbookSource: NetgalleyPublisher: Lake Union PublishingPublication Date: 1st November 2024Rating: 5 Stars
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Title: Grave Talk
The hardest part of death is learning how to live.
The last thing Alice expects to see at her husband’s graveside on his birthday is a giant, talking frog. On closer inspection, it’s a grown man dressed as Kermit.
Turns out Alice’s husband is buried next to Ben’s older brother Harry, who—as a parting practical joke in his will—insisted that Ben visit his grave each year, on this specific day, dressed in an as-yet-undisclosed pageant of embarrassing fancy dress.
With little but their grief and this one day in common, Alice and Ben form a very special, very strange friendship, meeting just once a year: same day, same time, same place—different silly costume. As the years pass and grief alters, can their unique bond help them cope with the hardest part of death: life?
I think when it comes to approaching a new Nick Spalding novel you need to expect the unexpected, especially if like me you don't tend to read the blurbs of books by authors you know you already enjoy.
This at its heart is a story about grief, set in a graveyard at yearly intervals between Alice and Ben who's loved ones are buried next to each other.
In typical Spalding manor though there are many incidents throughout the book that make me laugh out loud, with some hilarious turn of phrase or images.
Oh and in Harrys (Ben's brother's will) he is asked to visit the graveyard at midday on his birthday each year, and to wear the already organised fancy dress - starting with year one as Kermit the Frog.
Alice is grieving her husband and her story and emotion really does tug the heartstrings.
It is though a hopeful book and it did leave me smiling with a fabulous finale. Another winner for me from this talented author.
Thank you to Lake Union Publishing and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
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