Grave Talk
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Grave Talk
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Imogen Church, Steve West
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Narrated by:
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Imogen Church
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Steve West
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Nick Spalding
About this listen
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?
©2024 by Nick Spalding. (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...
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Alice is in her mid thirties whose husband Joe passed away suddenly in his forties. She is finding it hard to get passed what happened. As she received the call and rushed to the hospital she was too late. He was fit and healthy and she is searching for someone to blame.
Ben is in his twenties and is grieving his older brother Harry who died of leukaemia. He idolised him and Harry was often a surrogate parent to him. His father was always all about his job and as he comes from a family of doctors, his parents and Harry were all surgeons while Ben is in training, is he happy?
This visit to the graveside is Joe’s birthday and as Alice is distraught she catches sight of a young man dressed as Kermit the frog. I thought that on paper a friendship between them should not work but, after some awkwardness they strike up a conversation.
Before they know it they are meeting up yearly and discussing their lives. They often challenge each other to make changes in their lives.
Ben wears different outfits each year as his brother put it in his will. Harry was always the practical joker. The array of characters which if you read the book you will be laughing out loud 🤣
But, as they both process loss their challenges get harder. These are set to help them grow. Their friendship is a testament to Nick’s writing.
Nick did not shy away from the ugly parts of grief, it is often all consuming and palpable.
Alice and Ben go through a lot over the years and I loved how Nick wrapped it up at the end.
*Bittersweet*
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The male narration was spot on though and he made me keep listening and persevere with ‘Alice’ as I needed to know how it ended.
Glad I did as the story was great and I like the way it all tied in at the end without it being too obvious.
Anyway I’m now off to audition to be an audible reader as it seems they’ll let anyone do it! 🤣
Excellent story, shocking narration
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I don't want to give anything away but this is on my MUST READ list for anyone.
Wow! The best one so far!
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My favourite book of this month
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