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The Five People You Meet In Heaven Hardcover – 25 Sept. 2003

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THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN is a wonderfully moving fable that addresses the meaning of life, and life after death, in the poignant way that made TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE such an astonishing book. The novel's protagonist is an elderly amusement park maintenance worker named Eddie who, while operating a ride called the 'Free Fall', dies while trying to save a young girl who gets in the way of a falling cart that hurtles to earth. Eddie goes to heaven, where he meets five people who were unexpectedly instrumental in some way in his life. While each guide takes him through heaven, Eddie learns a little bit more about what his time on earth meant, what he was supposed to have learned, and what his true purpose on earth was. Throughout there are dramatic flashbacks where we see scenes from his troubled childhood, his years in the army in the Philippines jungle, and with his first and only love, his wife Marguerite. THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN is the perfect book to follow TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE. Its compellingly affecting themes and lyrical writing will fascinate Mitch Albom's huge readership.

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224 pages
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English
Publisher

Little, Brown
Publication date

25 Sept. 2003
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13.3 x 2.3 x 20.6 cm
ISBN-10

0316726613
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978-0316726610
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Albom has done it again... FIVE PEOPLE is a powerful book, powerful enough to make one's inner snob feel a little uncomfortable...Albom has touched the lives of a lot of people he never even knew. If there is a heaven, he can expect to have around 5.7 million people waiting for him there (TIME)

[Eddie] learns not only about his life but also about what his time on earth meant. It is simple, unaffected and written with great feeling (PUBLISHING NEWS)

Simply told, sentimental and profoundly true, this is a contemporary American fable that will be cherished by a vast readership . . . this slim tale, like Charles Dickens's A CHRISTMAS CAROL, reminds us of what really matters here of earth, of what our lives are given to us for (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY)

Mitch Albom lifts us to a new level ... You'll find here echoes of the classics - The Odyssey for one - and that puts Albom's book in the best of company (Frank McCourt, author of ANGELA'S ASHES)

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Beautifully written first novel that addresses the meaning of life - and life after death - from the internationally bestselling author of the non-fiction memoir TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown; First Edition (25 Sept. 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316726613
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316726610
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.3 x 2.3 x 20.6 cm

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Mitch Albom is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, which have collectively sold more than forty million copies in forty-seven languages worldwide. He has written seven number-one New York Times bestsellers – including TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, the bestselling memoir of all time, which topped the list for four straight years – award-winning TV films, stage plays, screenplays, a nationally syndicated newspaper column, and a musical. Through his work at the Detroit Free Press, he was inducted into both the National Sports Media Association and Michigan Sports halls of fame and is the recipient of the 2010 Red Smith Award for lifetime achievement. After bestselling memoir FINDING CHIKA and “Human Touch,” the weekly serial written and published online in real-time to raise funds for pandemic relief, his latest work is a return to fiction with THE STRANGER IN THE LIFEBOAT (Harper, November 2021). He founded and oversees SAY Detroit, a consortium of nine different charitable operations in his hometown, including a nonprofit dessert shop and food product line to fund programs for Detroit’s most underserved citizens. He also operates an orphanage in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, which he visits monthly. He lives with his wife, Janine, in Michigan. Learn more at www.mitchalbom.com, www.saydetroit.org, and www.havefaithaiti.org.

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Adam August Zbyszewski

A vision of heaven

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 June 2023

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I could not possibly give this book anything less than five stars. It's poignant, adequately long, readable and it gives you food for thought. You don't have to agree with the conception of life after death proposed by Mitch Albom but you cannot deny that it's an interesting proposition, and quite compelling too. One thing I found a bit off-putting in The Five People You Meet in Heaven is that the realities, both on earth and in heaven, are pretty grim and sombre, at least until you reach your ultimate destination, of which we get a vague image at the very end of the book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 July 2023

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Reading this book opened my mind to the idea of an afterlife. Profound and moving. Highly recommended. 5 stars fully deserved

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I absolutely loved this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 July 2023

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I would really recommend this. The concept and storyline are very novel and should tug at the heartstrings of all romantics.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 June 2023

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The premise of this story wasn’t matched in its delivery as a fairly mundane story failed to deliver.

I’m minded of a It’s A Wonderful Life which covers this territory far better as both film and it’s parent book The Greatest Gift.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 April 2023

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Absolutely loved the concept but not satisfied with the execution. It just felt like it fell slightly short - I wanted more! This is a book for young adults and I think I want an adult version of this book - something grittier with more character development. Saying that, it was nicely written, easy to read and follow and had an interesting ‘shock’ in there. Worth a read, especially for its intended audience which will be a fair bit younger than me!

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Laesio Enormis

Missed opportunity for me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 August 2023

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For me, this book is a missed opportunity. The idea would be so great but it terribly fails at the interpretation level. It's light and superficial. To be honest, after a few days of reading it, I cannot recall anything deep from the story.

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Lance Mitchell

Beautifully crafted and very thought-provoking

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 January 2020

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What a superb book with which to start my reading decade!

I was lucky enough to end the twenty-tens with a brilliant read, The Way: A Girl Who Dared To Rise. Picking another great book with which to start the ‘twenties has made me very happy.

Eddie is a fairground maintenance man with tonnes of experience of both life and his work. He is an Army veteran. On his eighty-third birthday, he meets with a tragic death while trying to save the life of a little girl who is a split second away from being crushed by one of the rides.

Death is not the end. It is the beginning.

Eddie arrives in Heaven and meets five people who have either had a significant effect on his life or whose lives he has significantly affected. He discovers much more than he ever knew about the back stories of his interactions with these people.

The book is beautifully crafted and very thought-provoking.

One of the people whom he meets in Heaven was never known to him during his life, yet she had a significant effect upon that life.

Another, predictably, so this is not really a spoiler, is his wife. Their love for each other made my heart boom and brought tears to my eyes. All five of the meetings stirred deep emotions in me.

There were several passages which resonated deeply with me.

As an adult runner, I have often spread my wings as I run through the countryside and imagined that I am an aeroplane, so I loved this:

It might have seemed ridiculous to anyone watching, this white-haired maintenance worker, all alone, making like an airplane. But the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.

Having lost my own father in March 2019, this short extract sprang off the page at me:

Through it all, despite it all, Eddie privately adored his old man, because sons will adore their fathers through even the worst behaviour. It is how they learn devotion. Before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation.

Although there a many more quotes which I could cite in this review, I’ll leave you with this one on forgiveness. It ties in well with another book that I read in the past year, Forgiveness Made Easy by Barbara J Hunt:

“Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. “Forgive, Edward. Forgive. Do you remember the lightness you felt when you first arrived in heaven?”

This really is a wonderful book. You should read it.

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Kelly

Such a sweet story line

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 March 2023

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This is one of those books that will stick with you.

Without giving too much away... it's a story about Eddie who dies and meets five different people in heaven.

Each person is someone from his past and brings with them a lesson for Eddie and understanding how he impacted people in his life and how they impacted him.

Super easy read and beautifully written.

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