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…
- ISBN13 9780007281114
- Publish Date 5 January 2009 (first published 16 June 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint HarperCollins
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk