![]() ![]() Though by the time we get there, it starts to look less like a bizarre aberration and more a natural extension of all the eccentric, moving and ingenious ways Londoners have faced down the spectre of death’ ‘Catharine Arnold conjures up an appalling vista of endless grinning skulls stretching back into prehistory… works as a handy one-stop-shop for all things morbid from the fate of Cromwell’s skull to the Necropolis Railway, post-mortem photography and beyond…The big set-piece with which Arnold ends her story is, of course, the overwrought funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. ‘An elegant saunter through the land of the dead’ A journalist and academic with a particular interest in death and crime, Catharine’s previous books include the acclaimed novel Lost Time. ![]() CATHARINE ARNOLD read English at Cambridge and holds a further degree in psychology. ![]()
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