Lake Union Publishing
July 2017
On Sale: July 13, 2017
Featuring: John Gascoigne
222 pages ISBN: 1477823913 EAN: 9781477823910 Trade Size Add to Wish List
Known for the wit of her writing, in her lifetime Catherine Cookson became the UKβs most widely read novelist. When the Cookson Estate discovered the unpublished manuscript of Saint Christopher and the Gravedigger in the attic of her home, they unearthed a gem for Cooksonβs many fans.
Gravedigger John Gascoigne lives in Downfell Hurst with his wife, Florrie, their three children and his mother, Gran. John is a deep thinker but extremely taciturnβa man of few words and many grunts. Which is why everyone is alarmed when heβs hit on the head by a cricket ball, and it suddenly seems as if the words wonβt stop. Whatβs more, he says he is talking to Saint Christopherβonly no one else can see the saint, and theyβre beginning to worry Johnβs not quite right in the headβ¦
Mad or not, John has some secrets heβs been keeping. But if he canβt stop talking, they wonβt stay secret for long.
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