Like Oysters in Their Shells
Malcolm Gaskill: The Death Trade, 18 August 2022
All the Living and the Dead: A Personal Investigation into the Death Trade
by Hayley Campbell.
Raven, 268 pp., £18.99, March,978 1 5266 0139 1 Show More
by Hayley Campbell.
Raven, 268 pp., £18.99, March,
“... a brick-lined oven ‘as ravaged as the surface of the moon’ to be blasted into charcoal, while Tony and Dave, nose-blind to the odour of steamed clams, sit around with tea and muffins waiting for the next delivery in the hydraulic lift. Tumours are apparently hardest to burn and glow like gold in the inferno. Outside, as mourners file from the chapel, the ... ”