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The Last Good Funeral of the Year

By: Ed O'Loughlin
Narrated by: Ed O'Loughlin
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Soon, the lockdown would start. People would die alone, without any proper ceremony. Charlotte's death would be washed away, the first drop in a downpour. Nobody knew it then, but hers would be the last good funeral of the year.

It was February 2020 when Ed O'Loughlin heard that Charlotte, a woman he'd known, had died, young and before her time. He realised that he was being led to reappraise his life, his family and his career as a foreign correspondent and acclaimed novelist in a new colder light.

He was suddenly faced with facts that he had been ignoring - that he was getting old; that he wasn't what he used to be; that his imagination, always over-active, had, at some point, reversed its direction, switching production from dreams to regrets. He saw he was mourning his former self, not Charlotte.

The search for meaning becomes the driving theme of O'Loughlin's year of confinement. He remembers his brother Simon, a suicide at 30; the journalists and photographers with whom he covered wars in Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans - wars that are hard to explain and never really stopped; his habit of shedding baggage, an excuse for hurrying past and not dwelling on things.

Moving, funny and searingly honest, The Last Good Funeral of the Year takes the listener on a circular journey from present to past and back to the present: 'Could any true story end any other way?'

©2022 Ed O'Loughlin (P)2022 Quercus Editions Limited
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