BOOK OF THE WEEK

THE NEXT PERSON YOU MEET IN HEAVEN

by Mitch Albom, Sphere, hardback £14.99, ebook £7.99.

★★★★★

MITCH ALBOM, whose The Five People You

Meet In Heaven rocked the world of publishing 15 years ago, again demands that you take a leap of faith with him.

Told in his trademark entrancing, artless style, the latest novel delivers the thought-provoking story of what happened to the girl spared death in the first book. Annie, who has endured a tumultuous existence since being saved by fairground handyman Eddie, finds love, only for her new happiness to be snatched away as she takes her journey in Heaven.

Albom’s premise is that not only does every life matter, but every ending is also a beginning – we only need to open our eyes to see it. Not quite a must-read the way the first book was, but it’s close. BeST-SeLLIng BOOKS 1. Tombland, C. J. Sansom 2. Milkman, Anna Burns

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