June 2008 Debut of the Month.
Delia knows she is dying and wants to make sure everything is in order before she goes, including confronting secrets from her past. The book is interspersed with letters Delia is sent in her role as a household expert which are both funny and sad and help to remind the reader what is important in the big scheme of things.
This is a thoroughly absorbing novel, told from Delia’s point of view without self pity or being over sentimental. This author is a great new find and highly recommended.
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.
| Primary Genre | Family Drama |
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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 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.
The Household Guide to Dying features in the following genres: Family Drama, Debut Books of the Month, Book Club Recommendations, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
Paperback, Hardback. Not Available.
The Household Guide to Dying was written by Debra Adelaide and published by HarperCollinsPublishers an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
The Household Guide to Dying has 370 pages
