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The link below takes you to the US edition of 'Love and Other Near Death Experiences' on Amazon. However, if you have any intention of buying the book - ever - do not read the reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist that are right there in the middle of the page, shouting their words directly into your face; also avoid the 'Book Description' that's directly below them. Do not read these things because they swiftly reveal to you characters and events the prior knowledge of which will knock a big dent in any pleasure you might have got from the first one-hundred-and-twenty pages or so of the novel.

OK - I've warned you now. Click here to proceed.