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Death, divorce and the magic of kitchen objects. How to Find Hope in Loss by B Wilson, read by Colleen Prendergast.

I have long felt that kitchen objects can have a life of their own.

Even so, I found this eerie.

One August day in 2020, I was going to fetch clothes out of the washing machine when suddenly a cake tin fell at my feet with a loud clang.

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