Michael Hinds first book, The Undertaking, is the saga of the Wardfamily and its oldest son Donald (D), who finds himself holding together the family undertaking business during the Second World Warin Britain. They must deal with death on a professional level, yet are as human and flawed as anybody else when dealing with the loss ofone of their own. The book opens on a funeral and is tolddramatically through flashbacks, where we learn of the losses andregrets that have brought them to this place, and of those familysecrets they bear together that may save them. Conflicts with Ds