Debra Adelaideová je autorkou, která zkoumá lidské vztahy a společenské normy s bystrým postřehem. Její psaní se vyznačuje pronikavou psychologií postav a pečlivě propracovaným jazykem. Adelaideová se zaměřuje na zkoumání složitosti moderního života a často se noří do témat identity, rodiny a hledání smyslu. Její literární přínos spočívá ve schopnosti zachytit jemné nuance lidské zkušenosti s empatií a inteligencí.
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.