Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician Book

Contains the stories of the fitness fanatic who was run over as he did pressups in the road on a dark night, the decapitated motorcyclist, the guide dog who led his owner on to the railway tracks - and left him there, and the forty stone man for whom an entire refrigerated lorry had to be hired because he wouldn't fit in the mortuary cooler.Read More

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  • Foyles

    Michelle Williams is young and attractive, she has close family ties as well as a busy social life - but she is far from usual. She is a mortuary technician and her job involves dealing with those things in life that many people do not wish to experience directly.Yet life in the mortuary is neither gruesome nor sad. Told with good humour and common sense, we are introduced to a host of characters - the pathologists, many of them eccentric, some downright mad; the undertakers, the hospital porters and the man from the coroner's office who sings to Michelle every morning.The incidents too ensure that no two days are ever the same. From the tragic to the hilarious they include:The fitness fanatic who was run over as he did pressups in the road on a dark nightThe decapitated motorcyclistThe guide dog who led his owner on to the railway tracks - and left him thereThe forty stone man for whom an entire refrigerated lorry had to be hired because he wouldn't fit in the mortuary coolerOver the course of her first year Michelle has to deal with situations and emotions that few of us will ever experience, and does so while retaining a sense of humour and a sense of perspective.

  • BookDepository

    Down Among the Dead Men : Paperback : Little, Brown Book Group : 9781849010290 : 1849010293 : 29 Jul 2011 : What is it like to work in a mortuary? Nothing like you'd expect, actually . . .

  • Pickabook

    Michelle Williams, Keith McCarthy

  • 1849010293
  • 9781849010290
  • Michelle Williams
  • 24 June 2010
  • Constable
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
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