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"31 year old Amelia's boyfriend is leaving her. Her mother is obcessed with staying clean and is spending more time washing her hands than being with her mother Selma who has been put in a retirement home against her will.
Ever since Amelia has been a little girl, her grandmother Selma has always been the one who has been looking out for her. She feels badly about not being there enough for her grandmother who has always been there for her and she decides that she is going to make Selma's last wish come true; she is going to let her die in her own bed in her own house. But there's just one problem - poor old senile Selma hasn't been told that her house has been sold and Amelia hasn't got the heart to tell her about it.
Amelia starts thinking hard and finally comes up with a plan how to get the new owners out of the house so that she can let her grandmother die in peace and free herself from the guilt of not being there for her enough."
Julia Elhag, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Family, caring for ill
Yes
Who is sick?
- Grampa/ma
because he/she is
- physically ill
Family, loving relations
Yes
Special relationship with
- grandma
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- writer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- writer
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- almost none
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 9 (quite a lot)
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Unusual Style:
- a lot of play on words
- a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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