Cinnamon Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Household-Guide-Dying-Debra-Adelaide/dp/0007281110/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231262399&sr=8-1 I picked up this book in Tesco as my daughter took the book I have been reading into school & has managed in her 1st day back to get it confiscated I have only read the first 4 short chapters,but it is a corker, & here is why. 1 - In the authors blurb,the last thing said about her is that she has several chickens. 2 - The first 2 chapters are almost exclusively about how much the main charater loves her chickens. This is so beautifully written in such a quirky way that I even got a bit weepy The end of each chapter is punctuated by a sketch of a hen feather. 3 - The main characters heroine is Mrs Beeton, & she herself is a domestic guru who writes houehold guides. Mrs Beetons gems pop up a lot, & there is some wonderful modern stuff in there too. 4 - The book promises to be darkly funny, & I reckon it would appeal to the humor of many of us on here Here is the Amazon blurb 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 forthy by 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Sounds good, may just fall into my basket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 I like the sound of that, I need a good read. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Oops That falling into basket just happened Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Will it make it to the Omlet Book Club list? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paola Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Ooooooo will have a looksy tomorrow Thank you Sarah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillfamily Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Oops.....one just fallen into my basket as well only 3 left now......the Omlet effect strikes again :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostin Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 There's only 2 left now, own up, who's been shopping? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrocksrock Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Oh no no no no no no I must not look as I am trying to be on a no spend year this year too so not for me - chanting I must not look, I must not look Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fowlbird Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 any left in tesco? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Thank you for the reccomendation and I shall keep a look out for that book too. I had a look at Amazon and they have a Elizabeth "Ooops, word censored!"el book Things I Want my Daughters to Know which I read last year and sobbed. It was very much like a tv programme on C4 early last year I think, about women with terminal illnesses doing memory boxes for their kids. Such an amazing programme which made me cry so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ana's flock Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 ooops, my finger slipped yet again... never mind, the book 'queue' on my bedside table was getting a bit low... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 And mine. That "buy it now with one click" feature is such a nuisance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedusA Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 I took a look on Amazon and (amazingly) have resisted so far (only because I have 5 books in a pile by the bed which I have to read first). However, I have made a note to ask at the library though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
