The not-dead and the saved and other stories - Kate Clanchy

None of us are perfect, in the way we love, age, or view the world. The Not-Dead and the Saved offers us an opportunity for reinvention: of
ourselves, those we have lost, and the world in which we live. From a man doomed to spend his life trying to find solutions to cancer;
to a new
mother haunted by a swaddling, tablet-eating great-aunt; to an intrepid
literary agent who travels to the Yorkshire Moors to discover the next big
thing, and ends up eating Anne Bronte's rock cakes, we meet a host of
characters who are desperately, creatively, and often hilariously trying
to evade the underlying truths of their lives.


The Not-Dead and the Saved is a cascade, of warm, wise and
insightful
stories about human nature, frank, funny, and sometimes desolating, but
always underpinned by tenderness, and by a faith in enduring bonds of love.