Grave Talk

By Nick Spalding,

Book cover of Grave Talk

Book description

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…


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Why read it?

1 author picked Grave Talk as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I chose this book because partly I’ve had a lot of bereavement this year – it’s been a tough year, for sure – and this ‘people dealing with death’ novel jumped out as soon as I read the first line of its blurb. Don’t be fooled – I may have mentioned bereavement and death, but this is, ultimately, a light-hearted and uplifting novel. It’s both funny and sad, but far more funny than sad, what with the man-dressed-as-a-frog-beside-the-grave thing setting the scene for the whole story. It also resonated with my own tendency to make friends with strangers and get…

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