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|title=The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals

|sort=Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9781780330563

|pages=264

|publisher=Corsair

|date=January 2012

|website=

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|summary=How do you get to the end of live not having loved the one you've been with, but having been with the one you should have loved? A seriously great novel from a debut author with a promising start to her career.

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It's Spring 1924 in South Wales, and young undertaker Wilfred is going to learn the hard way how serious the trivial can be. Fascinated by a girl's dress - worn very seductively by Grace, who he has met but twice as an adult - he blurts out a marriage proposal. As much as wants to take it back, she won't let him. He tries to move on, leaving her disappointed, especially when he falls for the daughter of a man he buries, but... There are things dangerously spoken, dangerously left unsaid, and a complex web of divided loyalties and enforced connections, in this brilliant debut novel.

But brilliance berated in this way sounds just churlish, so I shall desist. This is a writer new to publishing fiction, writing about a young man and his tangled web and doing it exceedingly well. I loved it, book groups worldwide will love it, and chances are you will too. There, I've committed myself.

For those seeking more fiction set around funeral homes, we loved [[Tethered by Amy MacKinnon]].

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[[Category:Literary Fiction]]