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Down Among the Dead Men

A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician

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Down Among the Dead Men

By: Michelle Williams, Keith McCarthy
Narrated by: Liz Holliss
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Michelle Williams, an attractive young woman with close family ties and an active social life, describes her first extraordinary year in her unusual new job as a mortuary technician. It’s a year in which, with innate good humour, she encounters death at its most tragic, bizarre, and hilarious. Her tale, neither gruesome nor sad, is enlivened by a range of colourful and eccentric characters, from pathologists and coroners to hospital porters and undertakers, giving us a glimpse of life - and death - that few of us will ever experience.

©2010 Michelle Williams (P)2011 Isis Publishing Ltd
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I was very disappointed with the story. It wasn’t well told and lacked details in places. Too much about the main character’s pub visits.

Boring in spite of subject

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Pretty interesting, the way she described the different cases was really good.
She does emphasize the amount of time and energy British people spend drinking and at the pub. Could have done without that.
Overall nice easy read, enlightening an interesting subject.

Good work stories, bit too much booze.

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