The End of the Road, Jack Cooke
The End of the Road, Jack Cooke
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The End of the Road

Author: Jack Cooke

Narrator: Paul Hilliar

Unabridged: 8 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 02/18/2021


Synopsis

A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved , drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous – and not so famous – tombs, graves and burial sites. Along the way, he launches a daredevil trespass into Highgate Cemetery at night, stumbles across the remains of the Welsh Druid who popularised cremation and has time to sit and ponder the imponderables at the graveside of the Lady of Hoy, an 18th century suicide victim whose body was kept in near condition by the bog in which she was buried. A truly unique, beautifully written and wonderfully imagined book.

Author Bio

Jack Cooke was born in 1985 and lives in London with his wife Jennifer, the book’s illustrator, and his son Bodie. This is his first book.

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