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These Silent Mansions: A life in graveyards
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'A refreshingly original meditation on a huge but widely ignored subject: the relationship between the living and the dead... I wish I had written it myself.' Literary Review
Graveyards are oases: places of escape, of peace and reflection. Each is a garden or nature reserve, but also a site of commemoration, where the past is close enough to touch: a liminal place, at the border of the living world.
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