A Sunday Times Bestseller March 2022 (Ireland) Soon, the lockdown
would start. People would die alone, without any proper ceremony.
Charlotte's death would be washed away, the first drop in a
downpour. Nobody knew it then but hers would be the last good
funeral of the year. It was February 2020, when Ed O'Loughlin heard
that Charlotte, a woman he'd known had died, young and before her
time. He realised that he was being led to reappraise his life, his
family and his career as a foreign correspondent and acclaimed
novelist in a new, colder light. He was suddenly faced with facts
that he had been ignoring, that he was getting old, that he wasn't
what he used to be, that his imagination, always over-active, had
at some point reversed its direction, switching production from
dreams to regrets. He saw he was mourning his former self, not
Charlotte. The search for meaning becomes the driving theme of
O'Loughlin's year of confinement. He remembers his brother Simon, a
suicide at thirty; the journalists and photographers with whom he
covered wars in Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, wars that are
hard to explain and never really stopped; his habit of shedding
baggage, an excuse for hurrying past and not dwelling on things.
Moving, funny, and searingly honest, The Last Good Funeral of the
Year takes the reader on a circular journey from present to past
and back to the present: 'Could any true story end any other way?'
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