James Baker - Author

A Life in Death - Memoirs of a Cotswold Funeral Director
   By James Baker
James Baker has spent his entire working life as a funeral director in the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, that part of the Cotswolds immortalised in the book ‘Cider With Rosie’ by Laurie Lee. In the pages of ‘A Life In Death’ James will take you into the hidden world of death and funerals, telling the story of his journey from wide-eyed teenager on work experience to becoming one of the longest serving funeral directors in his locality. He will also illustrate how the funeral profession, so long defined by custom and tradition, has reinvented itself in the face of the most radical changes in the British way of death since the Second World War. ‘A Life In Death’  was written not just to entertain, but also to enlighten and hopefully, to reassure.