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|title=The First Phone Call From Heaven

|sort=First Phone Call From Heaven, The

|publisher=Sphere

|date=November 2013

|summary=Possibly one of those rare life-changing novels, that people will readily gift to anyone they think deserves it. Certainly I might even start answering unknown phone calls.

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Something extraordinary is going to happen, and will continue to happen, through a long and eventful autumn in the small town of Coldwater. People will pick up phones, and hear a loved one speak to them, with assurances, love, delight – but they will all be the voices of dead loved ones. One woman has her slightly older, late sister contact her, another her deceased mother, who had ended her life disabled and wordless, while the local policeman will regain contact with the son killed in action in Afghanistan. The whole town will be transformed, but it might actually hit someone else hardest – Sully, fresh out of prison and patching his life back together with his six year old son, with both of them puzzled at why the lad's dead mother is among the silent majority.

I must thank the publishers for my review copy.

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