The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch AlbomEddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One

has suddenly reappeared

It will have you marvelling at the form you occupy

Using a combination of time-honoured stories and contemporary casework

Ron and Hermione

Why not try your luck on the spin-and-win prize wheel or hang out in a giant spider web (with a giant spider)

Why do we laugh

it tends to become disruptive when it depends on the limited knowledge of ordinary people to interpret them

how to look behind people's masks

Or had we simply forgotten it at the bottom of a drawer

the nature of beasts and the origins of language and writing

social class

Then there was the short-barrelled explosion of the Mannlicher and the lion was going to the left on a run