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|title=A Trick I Learned from Dead Men

|sort=Trick I Learned from Dead Men

|publisher=Jonathan Cape

|date=July 2012

|summary=A quirky, charming, sad but optimistic story set in the world of funeral services. With a distinctive narrative voice, this really is a book about life and death: sad and uplifting at the same time.

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Kitty Aldridge's ''A Trick I Learned from Dead Men'' is a touchingly written, quirky story set in the world of funeral homes. The narrator is twenty-something Lee Hart. He's not the sharpest tool in the box, but his life has been tough. His father left when he was young and his mother has recently died of cancer leaving him, his step-father, a sofa-bound television make-over show addict and his deaf and wayward younger brother, Ned to fend for themselves. Lee lands a job as a trainee at the local funeral home helping Derek prepare the dead for burial or cremation. Far from being a dead end job though, it is here that he learns, ironically, about life and love, in the form of the delivery girl from the local florists.