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A human history told through clay, from the critically acclaimed author of The Foghorn's Lament.

Have you ever been told to 'buck up' or to 'get on with it'? Needed time off for anxiety and depression and watched the people you work with pull away from you? Life is developing all the time and, more often than not, it can take a turn and lower your sense of wellbeing. Anxiety and depression is unfortunately very common, but there is a solution.

A young woman who has never learned how to grieve begins to come apart following the loss of the one friend who truly understood her. A mysterious and obsessive Humanist celebrant prepares to perform the most important funeral of her life. A world-weary and weather-beaten museum custodian resigns herself to hosting a mysterious ceremony that goes against everything she believes in. Connecting the three of them, a centuries-old bog mummy, hovering around it all, watching, waiting to be put to rest

Part memoir, part travelogue, part history of the foghorn: a uniquely ambitious new kind of nature book.