Description: Tonight nineteen-year-old William Lavery is dressed for success, his first black-tie do. It's the Midlands Chapter of the Institute of Embalmers Ladies' Night Dinner Dance, and William is taking Gloria in her sequined evening gown. He can barely believe his luck.But as the guests sip their drinks and smoke their post-dinner cigarettes a telegram delivers news of a tragedy. An event so terrible it will shake the nation. It is October 1966 and a landslide at a coal mine has buried a school: Aberfan. William decides he must act, so he stands and volunteers to attend. It will be his first job, and will be - although he's yet to know it - a choice that threatens to sacrifice his own happiness. His work that night will force him to think about the little boy he was, and the losses he has worked so hard to bury. But compassion can have surprising consequences, because - as William discovers - giving so much to others can sometimes help us heal ourselves.
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EAN: 9780571368303
UPC: 9780571368303
ISBN: 9780571368303
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Item Length: 23.4 cm
Item Weight: 0.5 kg
Book Title: A Terrible Kindness
Item Height: 234mm
Item Width: 153mm
Author: Jo Browning Wroe
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Literature
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication Year: 2022
Genre: Humor
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
