The Household Guide to Dying
The Household Guide to Dying
Debra Adelaide
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.
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Summary
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…
Product Description
Title - The Household Guide to Dying
Edition -
Author - Debra Adelaide
ISBN 13 - 9780007281114
Imprint - HarperCollins
Publisher - HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published - 05/01/2009
Prize -
No. of pages -
Binding Type - Paperback
Dimensions - 129 x 198 x 22mm
Weight - 260 g
Languages - English