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The household guide to dying (Box Set #7; 6 copies -- for Local Book Clubs Only): a novel

Adelaide, Debra, 1958-2008
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AU Author. When Delia Bennet - author and domestic advice columnist - is diagnosed with cancer, she knows it's time to get her house in order and secure the future for her husband, their two daughters and even her beloved chickens. But as she writes lists and makes plans, questions both large and small creep in. Should she divulge her best culinary secrets in her column? Read her favourite novels one last time? Plan her daughters' far-off weddings? Complicating her dilemma is the matter of the past, and a remote country town where she fled as a pregnant teenager, and left broken-hearted eight years later. As she researches and writes her final Household Guide, she confronts the pieces of herself she left behind and begins to understand that what really matters is not the past, but the present. And that the art of dying is all about truly living.
Imprint:
Sydney : Picador, 2008.
Collation:
386 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Bibliography: p. 385-386.
ISBN:
9780330424257
Dewey class:
A823.3
Language:
English
BRN:
174335
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