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The Gravedigger's Handbook
Paperback
General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Tonkoi Books
Published: Nov 30 2025
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Lucien Morel knows how to keep faith with the dead.
At St Aubin's Rest, the graves have names, histories, rules, and a kind of peace if a person is patient enough to tend them properly. Lucien has built his life around that patience. He knows where grief belongs. He knows what must be trimmed, cleaned, buried, remembered, and left alone.
Then Jonathan Graye is buried, and a young artist tied to the grave begins appearing among the headstones.
Nat is not a simple ghost story. He is restless, vivid, grieving, and impossible to place inside the careful order Lucien has spent years maintaining. As St Aubin's Rest stirs with old promises and half-spoken regrets, Lucien is drawn into a tenderness that makes grief harder to hide and mercy harder to refuse.
The Gravedigger's Handbook is a quiet queer gothic / literary supernatural love story about cemeteries, memory, being seen, and the dead who do not quite leave. Gentle haunting, not horror.
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