Catherine CooksonSaint Christopher and the Gravedigger

Good book.

Good

I enjoy reading all Catherine Cookson’s books

Good story

This is not a laugh out loud book. But it is so amusing it's just impossible to put it down. Characters and descriptions are so vivid you can actually feel their presence around you. You can say the not much is happening in the story, but really, there are processes that the characters are going through, conversations, conflicts, sitcoms... I just loved it and I'm going to look for more books by Catherine cookson.

I picked this book up from an email sending me book ideas based on my reading habits.I’ve never read a Catherine Cookson before but loved the accents read in my head. Decided this was based between 50’s and 60’s based on the food eaten and the morals.John is a sexton of the local church or more easily know as the gravedigger. He’s a stoic man and mainly keeps himself to himself and only his family know him and his habits well. Recently he’s become disillusioned with St Christopher due to the amount of funerals and local crashes. This anger is already bubbling when he gets knocked on the head watching cricket and becomes loquacious to the extreme that his wife, mother and children are shocked at the dramatic change in him.Old secrets come to light too from his past while grappling with being able to see and speak to this visiting saint trying to change his mind that it’s the drivers causing the accidents not being lax and blaming it on him.A nice story to wile away a few hours.