TY - BOOK AU - Swift,Graham TI - Last orders SN - 9781471187292 (paperback) U1 - 823.914 23 PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Scribner KW - Working class KW - Great Britain KW - Fiction KW - Older people KW - Psychological fiction KW - Older men KW - Death KW - Friendship KW - England KW - lcgft N1 - First published: 1996; Also issued online N2 - Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives ER -