Things We Learn When We're Dead

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.

Lucrurile pe care le invatam cand suntem morti este despre modul in care deciziile mici pot avea consecinte profunde si neintentionate, dar despre modul in care putem avea uneori o a doua sansa. . Cand se trezeste, se afla in ceea ce pare a fi un spital - dar un spital in care asistenta ei arata ca un tanar Sean Connery, i se serveste vin pentru cina si toata lumea ii evita intrebarile.