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To dwell easefully

A tender tribute to ancient death rituals
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September 2025, no. 479

Ferryman: The life and deathwork of Ephraim Finch by Katia Ariel

Wild Dingo Press, $34.99 pb, 252 pp

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To dwell easefully

A tender tribute to ancient death rituals
by
September 2025, no. 479

On weekday mornings in the 1950s a teenager called Geoffrey William Finch would ride his Malvern Star through Sydney’s Rookwood cemetery on the way to his carpentry job. Cutting across fields of headstones, he talked incessantly. When, several decades later, Katia Ariel asks who he was speaking to, Finch pauses, closes his eyes and then, ‘with a boyish smile playing on his bearded face’, explains that he was ‘talking to God’.

Ferryman: The life and deathwork of Ephraim Finch

Ferryman: The life and deathwork of Ephraim Finch

by Katia Ariel

Wild Dingo Press, $34.99 pb, 252 pp

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ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.

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