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    The Household Guide to Dying (Paperback) By (author) Debra Adelaide

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    Short Description for The Household Guide to DyingDesperate 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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    Penny Cunningham This is a story about Delia a woman who is dying. She has had a double mastectomy, all the trearment she can handle and now is the time that she must make herself ready for her death. She is a writer of household guides Laundry, gardening the Kitchen etc and she has a brainwave that she will write a guide to "Dying", to help others!
    She takes us back to a time 22 years before all this happens, to another life she lived but which was also connected to todays life, (you will see when you read the book, as I hope you will!).
    She got pregnant by a musician when young and went off to find him. She didn't, but made a life for herself in a small town called Amethyst in Australia, (the story is set in Australia, but could be anywhere), She bought a caravan and lived there bringing up her beautiful son Sonny for 8 years until a terrible accident killed Sonny and left her bereft. Sonny's heart was transplanted into a little girl who needed it and we find Delia going back to Amethyst to try and find the young girl before she dies. The book jumps (quite gently) back and forth from then to now.
    She is writing her book, making lists and trying to smoothe her families passage through her death. At times she comes across as very controling and sometimes a bit odd, like when she decides she loves her family so much she wants to leave a part of her behind and makes some blood sausage usung her own blood!! (yes I did say her own blood!!) but she later throws them away!
    The book is quite gentle in the way it comes across, she has the time to do the things she wants for her family (filling the freezer with home cooking, planning her daughters wedding, choosing a possible partner for her husband Archie!)
    but realises at the end that really none of it matters, as she puts it "Death is a poetic moment".
    I really enjoyed this book after s slow start. I was left thinking that she had been so lucky to have the time to wind down and say goodbye. I would recommend this book wholeheartedly. by Penny Cunningham

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