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Andrew Doesn't Want to Die Alone

(uk) Richard Roper

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I always feel that I will die alone, and I always feel that there is someone walking towards me through the crowd. A debut novel, it has been translated into 19 languages ​​and sold well in more than 20 countries, triggering dozens of world-renowned media reports including the New York Times! Once published, it has been recommended by many best-selling authors Eleanor Brown, Claire McIntosh, Bianca Mahers, etc., And has been praised by readers as "both sad and healing"! This is the story of a neurotic but soft-hearted man trying to learn how not to die alone, and it's addictive on every page. -- "Publishers Weekly". After reading this book, may we think about how not to die alone, and may we grasp what is truly important in life. "Blue moon, you see me standing alone." Andrew is 42 years old, and he often hates himself. He always felt that he would die alone and not know how to love anyone. Andrew's job is to deal with death: he attends 25 unattended funerals a year. If someone died alone, he would go to the deceased's home to investigate and confirm whether the deceased had any relatives still alive and whether the money left behind was enough to pay for the funeral. It's a gloomy job. Andrew felt that one day he would die alone and no one would attend his funeral. Andrew was suffocatingly lonely. Suddenly one day, his new colleague Peggy rushed into his life like a big mouthful of oxygen. The two broke into the houses of people who died alone, searching for the deceased's life stories and exploring the meaning of life. Gradually, Andrew began to think about how to live a good life again...