I have enjoyed Jim Crace's books before: Quarantine, the Pesthouse, and my particular favourite, Arcadia.
This book interweaves the story of Jim and Celice's 30 year marriage, with the story of what happens to their bodies in the six days after they are murdered while revisiting a secluded beach from their past.
It sounds gruesome, and in places it is; not for the squeamish or faint hearted. But this is such a poetic book, that the subject of death becomes bearable, and even beautiful.
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