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Evie King

Evie King is a council worker and writer. A former stand up comedian, she has always written short form pieces in the margins of her various day jobs, contributing to New Humanist, Guardian Comment is Free, BBC Comedy and Viz Comic. After moving to the seaside and going part-time she had more time for writing and completed her first book, Ashes to Admin, about her job arranging council funerals. It has sold over 10,000 copies, was selected by Stewart Lee for the London Review of Books one hundred books for the next twenty years collection, and won the ASDS 2025 Book Award. Her second book, the death planner, Get Ahead of Being Dead, was released in June 2026. She is an ambassador for missing persons and cold case charity Locate International, presents as an expert practitioner at international death conferences and heads up the UK training programme for council funeral workers.

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Ashes to Admin

Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer

By: Evie King

Narrated by: Evie King, Stewart Lee

Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins

Release date: 07/09/2023

Language: English

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