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Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry audiobook...
The author’s father-in-law died just nine days after his cancer diagnosis, inspiring this moving and sharply observed account of his last daysNovelist Sarah Perry’s memoir of her late father-in-law, David, chronicles the period from his first signs of illness, when he began to have trouble swallowing, to his diagnosis of oesophageal cancer, to his death at the age of 77 just nine days later.We first meet David, a retired chemist from Norwich, on a day trip with Perry and her husband in the summe
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