I See Dead People

A boy offers Robert Shaw two custard creams. A father meets David Bowie without knowing who he is. A small child discovers Darth Vader—and promptly escapes from his cot.

In these fifteen personal stories, Andrew McKimm finds humour, wonder and occasional disaster in the moments that stay with us. Music and films open doors to other lives; a honeymoon leads to a Venetian dentist; a Christmas Eve drive becomes an unexpected lesson in kindness.

As the collection unfolds, its laughter gives way to more searching questions about parents, children, friendship and loss. Warm, funny and candid, I See Dead People explores how the people we have loved remain present in the songs we hear, the places we revisit and the stories we tell.