![]() ![]() Written with great warmth and gentle humour, The Country Undertaker is as poignant as it is funny. ![]() He had a hearse that wouldn't start, a couple of four-by-twos and a rather unlikely assortment of funeral assistants, including Kelly O'Brien, the very sociable gravedigger who was kwn to sleep in the job. Instead of immaculately attired attendants and battery-operated lowering devices of the city, Mick Eames' lot was much simpler. A rich and generously told reminiscence about growing up in the Australian bush of the 1950s, and the eccentric life of Mick Eames, the country undertaker.When Mick Eames, footballer and spare parts man, moved his family to Holbrook in the 1940s, he had idea that the job of town undertaker would fall his way. ![]()
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