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What will I wear to your funeral? Kindle Edition
Kellie Curtain (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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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.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date9 May 2017
- File size1509 KB
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"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."
--This text refers to the paperback edition.About the Author
Product details
- ASIN : B0716R3P7T
- Publisher : Middle Page Publishing (9 May 2017)
- Language : English
- File size : 1509 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 326 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 203,065 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 242 in Grief & Bereavement
- 322 in Self-Help for Grief & Bereavement
- 2,655 in Memoirs (Kindle Store)
- Customer Reviews:
About the author

Kellie Curtain is a former Australian news reporter but an unlikely author. She has a degree in nothing and a short attention span. Throw four children into the mix and she's time poor too.
What will I wear to your funeral? is the book Kellie didn't realise was inside her until she and her family relocated to the Middle East. Her mother's death a year earlier had changed everything. The crushing loneliness was no surprise but what she hadn't expected was to find immense comfort in a record of open and honest conversations she had with her mother in the days before she died. After a lifetime of love the Curtain family were given the gift of goodbye. Starting to write is one thing finishing it is another and Kellie doubted she would, telling no one until it was finished.
Six years on Kellie and her family moved back to Melbourne Australia in July 2017. Happiness is found in family, her tribe of women in the East and West, good coffee and red wine.
Recently she launched a website aimed at Congregating, Elevating and Celebrating the Sistergood because behind every woman, is another one. It's a platform for sharing the stories behind interesting women and recognising those who influenced their path.
www.indeliblemarks.net
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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."
"What will I wear to you funeral", is a story of great family courage in the face of end of life for Pamela Curtain. Kellie writes with an honest open heart to capture grief, love, support and joy in this wonderfully honest journey. I have seen many comments from Kellie's friends around the world, at Kellie's urging, to read the book accompanied by a glass of wine and a copious quantity of tissues. It turned out to be sound advice, even for a 64 year old "man of the world"!
Ms Curtain is deservedly very proud of this homage to a woman taken before her time.
Place this in your "must read" list ASAP.
John Garrity
It was the most honest, heart warming and inspiring book I have read for a long time and those that know me, know I read a lot !!
I laughed, I cried, but most of all I was inspired by the love shared !!
I had been in a funk all week, for no reason other than a head cold. This morning I got up, after 3 hours sleep had a shower and in honour of Kellie's mum put on the brightest 💄 I could find !!
Thank you for sharing this with all of us Kellie Curtain...
From time to time ,I shed a tear but could not stop reading.
A must read.
Raphael Kuhn
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