Description
Mom,
I went to the store. See inside the fridge. I watered the plants. I cleaned out Peter's cage. I tidied the sitting room. And the kitchen. And I did the washing up.
I'm going to bed.
Your live-in servant,
Claire
Life on the Refrigerator Door is told exclusively through notes exchanged by Claire and her mother, Elizabeth, during the course of a life-altering year. Their story builds to an emotional crescendo when Elizabeth is diagnosed with breast cancer.
Stunningly sad but ultimately uplifting, this is a clever, moving, and original portrait of the relationship between a daughter and mother. It is about how we live our lives constantly rushing, and never making time for those we love. It is also an elegy to how much can be said in so few words, if only we made the time to say them.
A new edition of this simultaneously heartbreaking and heart-warming novel by Alice Kuipers.
A simultaneously heartbreaking and heart-warming novel by Alice Kuipers.
About the Author
Alice Kuipers was born in London in 1979. She studied at Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan Universities. In 2003, she moved to Saskatoon, Canada, where she now lives with her partner, Yann Martel. Life on the Refrigerator Door was her first novel.
Reviews
Funny and sad and beautiful and shocking all at once * Sugarscape *
Book Information
ISBN 9781509801879
Author Alice Kuipers
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Macmillan Children's Books
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 166g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 129mm * 16mm
