A review by rebeccazh
All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

I've became interested in the culture surrounding death and then read Sue Black's very outstanding Written in Bone and became more interested. This is a very fascinating book - I found the prose a bit unnecessarily descriptive sometimes - but the spotlight that Campbell shines on death workers is fascinating, eg the bereavement midwife, the organization that deals with large scale mortality (disaster, accidents etc), embalmers... Really fascinating stuff. Wish I could've seen some of it in visual form.