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9 20 y separately published work icon The Household Guide To Dying Debra Adelaide , ( trans. Maarten Polman with title Als Ik Er Niet Meer Ben ) Amsterdam : Artemis , 2008 Z1490014 2008 single work novel

'When Delia Bennet - author and domestic advice columnist - is diagnosed with cancer, she knows it's time to get her house in order. After all, she's got to secure the future for her husband, their two daughters and their five beloved chickens. But as she writes lists and makes plans, questions both large and small creep in. Should she divulge her best culinary secrets? Read her favourite novels one last time? Plan her daughters' far-off weddings?

'Complicating her dilemma is the matter of the past, and a remote country town where she fled as a pregnant teenager, only to leave broken-hearted eight years later.

'Researching and writing her final Household Guide, Delia is forced to confront the pieces of herself she left behind. She learns what matters is not the past but the present - that the art of dying is all about truly living.' (Publisher's blurb)

10 13 y separately published work icon The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley (Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life) Martine Murray , ( trans. Maarten Polman with title Het beetje ware verhaal van Cedar B. Hartley (die van plan was een ongewoon leven te leiden) ) Amsterdam : Vassallucci , 2003 Z942003 2002 single work children's fiction children's "When twelve-year-old Cedar loses her dog, it sets off a chain of events leading her to find a new friend, become an acrobat, and learn some bitter-sweet truths about family, community, and herself." (Source: OCLC)
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