![]() ![]() (I would have quit on my first day.)Īndrew is good at it, awful though his job is. Often these dead people have been found days after their demise, which means Andrew often must don a face mask sprayed with cologne to offset the stench of the recently removed decaying body. ![]() ![]() Perhaps there is an old Christmas card with a phone number or address or even a name to contact. Andrew, a quiet, kind, single man works for the Death Administration, a British government job that involves rooting through the homes of dead people who have no apparent next of kin, and looking under beds and through rubbish bins for scraps of contact information. We meet Andrew at a funeral he is attending for his work. The heartbeat of the novel is Andrew Smith, a sympathetic companion with whom to spend a few hours. Though the novel is not perfect (as many deem Eleanor Oliphant to be), it is instantly engaging, inviting us as readers along for a quirky, offbeat, and ultimately heart-wrenching and hopeful ride. If The Office (British version) and the smash hit novel Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine had a book baby, it would be How Not to Die Alone, a debut novel from English writer Richard Roper. ![]()
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