Death of an Ordinary Man

A dead man pursues the secrets of his life and death in this "dense, subtle, substantive, perfectly shaped fiction" by the author of I, Lucifer (The Guardian, UK).

Nathan Clark's gravestone reads: At rest. But Nathan is not at rest, and knows he won't be until he finds out why he died. How has he come to hover over his own funeral, a spectral spectator to the grief of his family and friends? Privy now to their innermost thoughts and feelings, Nathan spends the day of his wake getting to kno...