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"After my wife, Elizabeth Chapel, was murdered by the bellman Alfonse Padgett in the Essex Hotel, she didn't leave me." Sam Lattimore fulfills Elizabeth Chapel in 1970s Halifax, within an art gallery. The sparks are immediate, leading quickly to a marriage that is dear, erotically costed, and brief. In Howard Norman's spellbinding and moving novel, the gleam of the marriage and the circumstances of Elizabeth's murder are uncovered in heart-stopping increments. Sam's life afterward is complicated. To begin with, in a moment of desperate bafflement, he provides his life history to a Norwegian filmmaker named Istvakson, known for the stylized violence of his videos, whose creative drive units in motion an increasingly extreme cat-and-mouse game between the two men. For another, Sam has started "seeing" Elizabeth - not only witnessing but holding discussions with her, almost every evening, and viewing her fall into line books on a tiny beach. What at first seems just a hallucination delivered of terrible grief shows itself, evening by evening, as something else entirely. Next Life Might Be Kinder is a tale of murder, eager faith, the afterlife, and love as absolute redemption - from one of our most engaging storytellers at the height of his abilities.
