Thanks to the new Thursday Trailblazer feature, the Thursday Three has become the Tuesday Three. And I thought I’d celebrate the move with a look at books featuring ... death. (I really don’t know how to celebrate, do I?)
P.S. I Love You, the debut novel from Cecilia Ahern, examines what happens when young love ends too soon. Holly is devastated when her childhood sweethearts Gerry dies of a brain tumour, but soon finds that he has left her a set of envelopes - one labelled to be opened on a specific day each month. Each envelope contains a task to help Holly move on with her life. And each message ends with the words 'P.S. I love you'. A lovely, sad, and funny book.
The reissued version of Marc Levy’s If Only It Were True, Just Like Heaven is about Lauren, a resident in a busy ER department, who crashes her car and ends up in a deep coma. A few weeks later Arthur moves into a fabulous new apartment. Imagine his shock when he finds a girl in his closet ... a girl who is amazed that he can see her and hear her ... a girl who tells him that her body is lying in a coma on the other side of town - yup you've guessed it, it's Lauren. The book’s great and so’s the film.
How Will I Know by Sheila O’Flanagan explores the relationship between a bereaved mother and her daughter. Following her husband Bill’s tragic death, Claire’s life revolves around her daughter Georgia. While Georgia is getting to grips with a first boyfriend, Claire is rediscovering the world of dating herself.
