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Saint Christopher and the Gravedigger
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John Gascoigne, the gravedigger of Downfell Hurst, is known to his wife Florrie, their children and his formidable mother as a man of grunts rather than conversation. After a cricket ball strikes his head, he begins talking without restraint and claims that Saint Christopher has become his invisible companion.
The family fears that John has lost his reason, but his unstoppable speech presents a more practical danger: secrets preserved by years of silence are now likely to emerge. The comic premise develops into a domestic reckoning in which candour threatens established relationships and forces the Gascoignes to listen to the man they had taken for granted.
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