THE HOUSEHOLD GUIDE TO DYING - Softcover

Adelaide, Debra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007281110 ISBN 13: 9780007281114

Publisher: HarperFiction, 2009

Synopsis

Desperate Housewives meets Six Feet Under in this brilliantly moving and darkly comic novel, which charts the attempts of dying heroine Delia – a modern day Mrs Beeton – to prepare her family for the future and lay to rest a ghost from her past.

Delia Bennet has made a living writing a series of hugely successful modern household guides, with advice on everything from laundry to lovers.

The one thing she hasn’t ever given advice on is her own situation: barely forty but dying.

To prepare her family, she tries everything from writing lists to teaching her daughters to make the perfect cup of tea. What she really needs is a household guide: the kind she is expert at writing. She sets to work.

But the writing forces Delia to confront painful ghosts from her past. there is a journey she needs to make, and one last vital thing she must do...

About this title

Product Description:

Desperate Housewives meets Six Feet Under in this brilliantly moving and darkly comic novel, which charts the attempts of dying heroine Delia -- a modern day Mrs Beeton -- to prepare her family for the future and lay to rest a ghost from her past.

Review:

‘Darkly comic novel with a tone that is Desperate Housewives meets Six Feet Under...this is caustic and hilarious, as well as heart-warming. A clever read that stays with you for a long time' Red

'Adelaide's moving novel captures both the hope and sadness of Delia's plight' Daily Mail

'A novel about loving and grieving...filled with humour, warmth and sadness – just like life' Good Reading

‘I found this novel entrancing. The Household guide to Dying is a joyous, irreverent romp of a book that resonates deep inside long after you finish. Delia's magical, crystalline voice made me fervently wish that she was real and that I knew her.’ PATRICIA WOOD, Lottery

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperFiction
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0007281110
• ISBN 13: 9780007281114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 386