Last Orders by Graham Swift (Winner, 1996 Booker Prize)

Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea.  For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them.  On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives. 

'His finest book to daye; emotionally charged and technically superb...Last Orders is about how we live and how we die and our struggle to make abiding connections between the two'  Times Literary Supplement.

'A triumph...A novel that unflinchingly contemplates human perishability, and that also pays unsentimental tribute to human resilience' Sunday Times.

'Tragic, comic and wonderfully compassionate'  Daily Mail.

Soft cover, fair condition, cover a bit bent at the edges.  295 pages, all intact.