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A freshly insightful, hopeful, and dramatic novel full of heart and lifeatold from the perspective of a household advice columnist, wife, and mother who is determined to finish a lifetimeas worth of tasks even though she doesnat have a lifetime left to live.
T he Household Guide to Dying is a moving, witty, and uplifting novel about Delia, who writes an acerbic and wildly popular household advice column. When Delia realizes that she is losing her long battle with cancer, she decides to organize her remaining monthsaand her husband and childrenas future lives without herathe same way she has always ordered their household. Unlike the many faithful readers of her advice columnapeople who are rendered lost and confused when faced with dirty shirt collarsaDelia knows just what to do. She will leave a list for her daughteras future wedding; fill the freezer with homemade sausages, stews, and sauces; and even (maddeningly) offer her husband suggestions for a new wife. Sheall compile a lifetimeas worth of advice for her children, and sheall even write the ultimate aHousehold Guide to Dyinga for her fans. There is one item on her list, however, that proves too much even for aDear Delia, a and it is the single greatest task she had set for herself. Yet just as Delia is coming to terms with this, an unexpected visitor helps her believe in her lifeas worth in a way that no list ever could.
Imbued with Deliaas love for food, Jane Austen, clucking hens, and fragrant gardens, and interspersed with her secrets to making a pot of tea, removing wine stains from lace, and the ingredients to the perfect wedding cake, this is a gorgeously crafted novel that captures the readeraheart and mindaand expands our understanding of a meaningful life.

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With The Household Guide to Dying, Debra Adelaide serves up a tantalizing literary souffle - a beautiful blending of lightness and substance that centers around Delia, as quirky, funny, feisty and brave a character as any in contemporary fiction. I think you'll love this life-affirming novel. I did. <br> -Wally Lamb, author of The Hour I First Believed <br> I found this novel entrancing. The Household Guide to Dying is a joyous book that resonates deep inside long after you finish. Delia's magical, crystalline voice made me fervently wish that she was real and that I knew her. <br>-Patricia Wood, author of LOTTERY <br> What an uplifting novel. Itas gorgeously written, while also being absolutely page-turning and breathtakingly tender. I adored the character of Delia and was riveted to her story from beginning to lovely and surprising end. <br>-Cecelia Ahern, author of PS, I Love You and There's No Place Like Here

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