Debra Adelaide es una autora que explora las relaciones humanas y las normas sociales con una aguda perspicacia. Su escritura se caracteriza por una psicología de personajes perceptiva y un estilo de prosa meticulosamente elaborado. Adelaide se centra en examinar las complejidades de la vida moderna, adentrándose a menudo en temas de identidad, familia y la búsqueda de sentido. Su contribución literaria reside en su capacidad para capturar los sutiles matices de la experiencia humana con empatía e inteligencia.
Delia has made a living writing an acerbic advice column and a series of wildly successful modern household guides. As the book opens, she is barely 40 but has only a short time to live. The novel charts her preoccupation with two things: how to make provision for her husband and daughters - and how to make her peace with her past
A 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.