Death of an Ordinary Man
$32.00
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2026
Summary
A Life Unfolding: Reflections on Death, Care, and Remembrance
Now I understand there are no ordinary lives – that every death is the end of a single event in time’s history: an event so improbable as to be miraculous, and irreplaceable in every particular.
Sarah Perry’s father-in-law, David, died at home nine days after a cancer diagnosis and having previously been in good health. The speed of his illness outstripped that of the NHS and social care,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787336018 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787336018 |
| Author: | Sarah Perry |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Sarah Perry
Sarah Perry is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Enlightenment, Melmoth, The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood, and the non-fiction Essex Girls. She is a winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year Award and the British Book of the Year Award. Enlightenment was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 and her other work has been nominated for major literary prizes including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Folio Prize and the Costa Novel Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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