Debra Adelaide is a Sydney-based author. Her recent novel, The Household Guide to Dying, has been a worldwide success, having been published so far in Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, China, Italy and Poland.
The Household Guide to Dying was published in the USA by G.B. Putnam, and in Canada by Penguin in 2009. The US and Canadian paperback edition, pictured here, appeared in April 2010.
In 2009 the novel was longlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize for fiction, along with 19 other novels by women from around the world. In Australia, it was recently shortlisted for the inaugural Randwick Literary Award, along with Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America, JM Coetzee's Summertime and Tim Winton's Breath.
"I think you'll love this life-affirming novel. I did."
— Wally Lamb, author of
The Hour I First Believed
