![What will I wear to your funeral? by [Curtain, Kellie]](https://images-fe.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41QB0rGB5%2BL._SY346_.jpg)
Everyone thinks about it but no-one talks about it. This book is for everyone who has, may, or hasn't lost a loved one and wants to know what lays ahead. What will I experience? Will I have the strength? How do I manage those awkward conversations with doctors, family, friends and young children?
What this story shows is that people have a strange way of coming together in a crisis, looking after each other, and shows how strong and dignified people can be when they know they have limited time. More importantly, it gives amazing comfort to know that all we have are the memories, nothing else really matters, and that dying is just part of the circle of life, not to be feared, but to invigorate what life and living really is.
One of the most interesting observations is realising that strength and love is not bound by age or experience. It magnifies a unique and special bond between the young and old, how they seem to know how important it is to live in the moment. There will be lots of giggles, tears and wry smiles as you identify those involved as people that could be you, your family or friends. This makes the book so much more real and engaging. An emotional rollercoaster that somehow makes you feel so much stronger for experiencing it.
You will finish reading this book and realise that death should not be feared, blood is thicker than water, and every day is a blessing. There is a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt the author states which sums the message of this book up perfectly - "Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, today is a gift."
Review
“It is deeply moving but not trite and answers questions I didn’t even realise I had about dying. I cried, laughed and it made me assess my own relationships.”
“It made me want to spend some wine fuelled evenings with the Curtains”
“This is a love story. I feared that my own experience of loss would make reading about the intimacy of dying too painful but it is done in a way that I actually I found it comforting.”
“I love reading books you just can’t put down and this was one of them!”
“It’s like a two way experience. An extraordinary feeling and I felt healing for my own grief. That’s quite an achievement.”
“I never re-read books but I know there will be a time when I will want to re-read this one.”
“It had me sucked in from the very beginning and I read it like a speeding train.”
“I am heading out to buy myself a new lipstick today.”
Product Description
‘Put your lipstick on, begin the day.
It will start without you anyway.’
‘What will I wear to your funeral?’ ‘And how do I look after your orchid?’
Kellie wanted to ask her mother so many questions while she still could. When you don’t go a day without speaking to someone you love, how do you say goodbye forever? It didn’t bear thinking about.
When Pamela Curtain is diagnosed with cancer, her family plead with her to try everything that might give them all more time. She reluctantly agrees, but on one condition. Life goes on because it has to and so does the weekly family dinner with wine and loud sibling banter.
With grace, guts and cups of tea the matriarch prepares herself and those she loves for the inevitable. Their conversations are honest, funny and at times confronting, where a shade of lipstick might be the only bright side.
This is a toast to love, friendship and the ordinary. There is no happy ending but the Curtain family discovers that there can be ‘good’ in goodbye. And it somehow leaves them feeling just a little victorious.
Now put on the kettle and open the wine.
It will start without you anyway.’
‘What will I wear to your funeral?’ ‘And how do I look after your orchid?’
Kellie wanted to ask her mother so many questions while she still could. When you don’t go a day without speaking to someone you love, how do you say goodbye forever? It didn’t bear thinking about.
When Pamela Curtain is diagnosed with cancer, her family plead with her to try everything that might give them all more time. She reluctantly agrees, but on one condition. Life goes on because it has to and so does the weekly family dinner with wine and loud sibling banter.
With grace, guts and cups of tea the matriarch prepares herself and those she loves for the inevitable. Their conversations are honest, funny and at times confronting, where a shade of lipstick might be the only bright side.
This is a toast to love, friendship and the ordinary. There is no happy ending but the Curtain family discovers that there can be ‘good’ in goodbye. And it somehow leaves them feeling just a little victorious.
Now put on the kettle and open the wine.
