The Household Guide to Dying

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  • Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2009)
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The Household Guide to Dying

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ISBN: 9780007281114
Authors: Debra Adelaide
Date of Publication: 2008-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Romance, Drama, Contemporary
Related Topics: Chick Lit
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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 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 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...
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