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Biographical note
In a long and highly successful career, Keith Waterhouse published fifteen novels, including Billy Liar (which has been filmed and staged) and Our Song (also staged), seven non-fiction books and seven collections of journalism. He wrote widely for television, cinema and the theatre, including the highly successful play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell. He also published two acclaimed memoirs, City Lights and Streets Ahead. He died on 4th September 2009.Touching, hilarious . . . a journey of hope and courage
The Times
Waterhouse sparkles in this fictional diary of a newly-bereaved widow
Daily Express
Often moving, often comic . . . The strength of this novel lies in pathos and in its onwards-and-ever-upwards, day-to-day detail
Literary Review
A realistic view of bereavement, full of humour
Mail on Sunday
Beautifully written
Sunday Independent (Ireland)