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[Cinnamon]

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...

[Chickvic]

Sounds good, may just fall into my basket

[Plum]

I like the sound of that, I need a good read. Thanks

[Chickvic]

Oops That falling into basket just happened

[Egluntyne]

Will it make it to the Omlet Book Club list?

[Paola]

Ooooooo will have a looksy tomorrow Thank you Sarah

[hillfamily]

Oops.....one just fallen into my basket as well

 

 

only 3 left now......the Omlet effect strikes again :D

[mostin]

There's only 2 left now,

 

own up, who's been shopping?

[Blackrocksrock]

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

[fowlbird]

any left in tesco?

[bluekarin]

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.

[Ana's flock]

ooops, my finger slipped yet again... never mind, the book 'queue' on my bedside table was getting a bit low...

[Egluntyne]

And mine. That "buy it now with one click" feature is such a nuisance.

[MedusA]

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.