![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So does the first woman to be bayoneted while fighting as a soldier in the British Army and then live until 108 (Phoebe Hessel, 12 December, 1821). The first barmaid in England to have been eaten by a tiger (Hannah Twynoy, 23 October 1703, Malmesbury) makes it into his pages. It helps if you have had an interesting life or death. ![]() One day over the rainbow, Peter Ross might wander into your graveyard, notebook in hand. Opt for the former, though, and there is at least a sliver of hope of an afterlife. Whether with a ton of earth above us or an hour and a half at 900C in the incinerator, all our stories come to an end sometime. David Robinson finds he brings the same skill and sensibilities to his new book on death and burial, A Tomb With a View.Ī Tomb with a View: The Stories and Glories of Graveyards ‘In our culture, Death has made exactly the same transition, from central to fringe, visible to obscured.’ Peter Ross has been writing, with great empathy and care, of lives great and small throughout his journalistic career. ![]()
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