A review by kali
The Choir of Gravediggers by Mel Hall

5.0

A short novella, the premise and setting of this intrigued me and it was right up my alley.the choir of gravediggers Set during the late-Victorian / Edwardian period at St Kilda Cemetery, this tells the imagined story of the author’s great-grandfather, Charles Truelove, the cemetery manager with his eccentric choir of gravediggers, the Esprit de Corpse. There are many pearls of authentic historical detail here, such as the underground seepage of water that made corpses turn in their graves. Truelove’s daughter discovers papers after his death that unravel how her father became undone and disappeared.