People who have lived in the country will recognise some of the characters, even without having ever visited Holbrook. As one of Australias first aviation writers, and former press secretary to the Minister for Aviation and former Director of Public Affairs for Qantas, he is a man who has lived and breathed aviation. Mick Eames’ story is at times funny, at others poignant and at all times gently honest. Jim Eames is author of The Country Undertaker and Six Feet Under Up in Smoke. Jim Eames’ recollections of his father’s years as a country undertaker are candid, humorous and entertaining.

Soon though, his entrepreneurial skills came to the fore and he became first the local taxi owner and then the funeral director. A rich and generously told reminiscence about growing up in the Australian bush of the 1950s, and the eccentric life of Mick Eames, the country undertaker. When Mick Eames moved his family to Holbrook in the 1940s, it was to pursue his career as a spare parts man, not to become the town undertaker. , The country undertaker reminiscences of bush life Jim Eames Allen Unwin Crows Nest, N.S.W Wikipedia Citation Please see Wikipedias template documentation for. Here was my father, the brand new country undertaker, thrown in at the deep end of a funeral at least three times larger than he would have liked and probably the main reason I was sitting in the passenger seat of the Essex, wearing long pants, the only white shirt I owned and one of my father’s dark ties.

A conversation with Jim Eames who has written a memoir of his fathers time as a small town undertaker, at Holbrook in country NSW in the s and 60s.

The Country Undertaker by Jim Eames