Debra Adelaide je autorkou, ktorá skúma medziľudské vzťahy a spoločenské normy s bystrým postrehom. Jej písanie sa vyznačuje prenikavou psychológiou postáv a starostlivo prepracovaným jazykom. Adelaide sa zameriava na skúmanie zložitosti moderného života a často sa ponára do tém identity, rodiny a hľadania zmyslu. Jej literárny prínos spočíva v schopnosti zachytiť jemné nuansy ľudskej skúsenosti s empatiou a inteligenciou.
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.