THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN
By Mitch Albom
Timewarner. 208 pages. £6.99
ISBN 0 7515 3682 2
This is a novel which is being pushed in the 3-for-2 promotion in some high street bookshops. It is not a Christian book, but the title will intrigue customers.
It imagines the story of what happens in the afterlife to Eddie, a man in his 80s who is killed trying to save a little girl in a fairground accident.
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