The Household Guide to Dying

Informationen zum Autor Debra Adelaide is the author of two novels which were published in Australia and four themed collections of fiction and memoirs. She has worked as a researcher, editor and book reviewer, and has a PhD from the University of Sydney. She is now a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has three children and several chickens. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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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'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

Product details

• Authors: Debra Adelaide, Adelaide Debra
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.01.2009
• EAN: 9780007281114
• ISBN: 978-0-00-728111-4
• No. of pages: 370
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Ghost, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Health and illness, Classic fiction: general and literary, Love;Death;Humour;Loss;Secrets;Family;Past