# The Things We Learn When We’re Dead

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- Book: [The Things We Learn When We’re Dead](https://www.bookquiver.com/charlie-laidlaw/the-things-we-learn-when-were-dead) ([The Things We Learn When We’re Dead.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/charlie-laidlaw/the-things-we-learn-when-were-dead.md))
- Authors: [Charlie Laidlaw](https://www.bookquiver.com/charlie-laidlaw)
- Publisher: headline_accent
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-17-8615-525-2
- Published: 2017-01-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The Things We Learn When We’re Dead is about how small decisions can have profound and unintended consequences, but how we can sometimes get a second chance. On the way home from a dinner party, Lorna Love steps into the path of an oncoming car. When she wakes up she is in what appears to be a hospital – but a hospital in which her nurse looks like a young Sean Connery, she is served wine for supper, and everyone avoids her questions. It soon transpires that she is in Heaven, or on HVN, because HVN is a lost, dysfunctional spaceship, and God the aging hippy captain. She seems to be there by accident… or does God have a higher purpose after all? Despite that, The Things We Learn When We’re Dead is neither sci-fi nor fantasy. It is a book about memory and how, if we could remember things slightly differently, would we also be changed? In HVN, Lorna can at first remember nothing. But as her memories return – some good, some bad – she realises that she has decisions to make and that, maybe, she can find a way back home.