“You Can’t Die” is a collection of true stories that aims to provide evidence of life after death. It was inspired by the author’s visits to her local spiritualist church following her mother’s death.

Personally, I found that much of this book was given over to the author’s life story. Born in 1944, Wendy Marston’s story is filled with memories of years gone by, which I found really interesting. There were some great insights into school life in the late 1940’s/early fifties, when a teacher’s first choice of reprimand was the cane! The following years are also covered, which I found fascinating, but it left little time for the spiritual events.

The author indicates how the right person at the right time came into her life on many occasions, (albeit momentarily), just when she needed some help, and I pondered how that applied to my own life, and yes there have been times when something happened where I thought “ That was lucky “. Some would call it coincidence, something which the author doesn’t believe in, she believes it was spiritual intervention, but it’s impossible to prove either way.

I certainly found this to be an interesting read, but mainly as a piece of social history. There WERE a couple of convincing instances, one of which was that Wendy, her sister and mother and father all agreed two very secret code words known only to them, to be revealed via a Medium or other source as proof of life after death. Following her death, Wendy’s mother did indeed come through a Medium who gave the secret code, along with more evidence, which did give some food for thought. However, the spiritual side took something of a back seat for me.