Delia has made a living writing modern household guides. If you ask, she can tell you how to get the wine stain out of your linen, and the proper way to boil an egg. As the book opens, she is not yet forty, but has only a short time to live. 
Unlike the many fans of her advice column--people who can't quite cope with dirty shirt collars--Delia knows just what to do. What she needs is a manual --the kind she is expert at writing. Realizing this could be her greatest achievement, she sets to work. But in the writing, she is forced to confront the ghosts of her past: She realizes that there is a journey she needs to make and one last vital thing she needs to do. 
Yet just as Delia is coming to terms with the impossibility of her to-do list, an unexpected visitor helps her believe in her life's worth in a wholly surprising way. Witty and uplifting, The Household Guide to Dying is a beautifully written novel about life.

Household Guide To Dying

Adelaide, Debra

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Canada

The Household Guide to Dying

Women's Fiction

Picador

A terminally ill advice columnist fills her remaining days writing lists for her family on ways to organize their lives and composing a guide for her readers on dying.

Contemporary

Putnam Adult

Now that popular household advice columnist Delia Bennet is dying from cancer, she's compiled the ultimate to-do list: plan her daughter's future wedding, fill the freezer with her family's favorite meals- perhaps even do some matchmaking for her husband. But just as Delia comes to terms with the impossibility of ever tying every loose thread together in her too-short time, an unexpected visitor helps her believe in her life's worth in a way no list ever could...

The Household Guide to Dying: A Novel About Life

World Literature

Berkley Trade

Joan London (Gilgamesh), Luke Davies (Candy), Kate Forsyth (The Witches of Eileanan), Andy Griffiths (The Day My Butt Went Psycho), David Malouf (Ransom), and many more contribute This collection of essays and memoir pieces explores the topic of reading, in particular what it means for writers to be readers and how that has shaped their life. Contributors include Debra Adelaide, Joan London, Delia Falconer, Sunil Badami, Gabrielle Carey, Luke Davies, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Kate Forsyth, Giulia Giuffre, Andy Griffiths, Anita Heiss, Gail Jones, Jill Jones, Catherine Keenan, Malcolm Knox, Wayne Macauley, Fiona McFarlane, David Malouf, Rosie Scott, Carrie Tiffany and Geordie Williamson.

The Simple Act of Reading

History & Criticism

Vintage Australia

When author and domestic advice columnist Delia Bennet is diagnosed with cancer, she knows it's time to get her house in order. The result is a celebration of love, family and that place we call home.

The Household Guide to Dying (Thorndike Press Large Print Core)

Thorndike Pr

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Picador/Pan Macmillan

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Picador Australia

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