Kellie Curtain has a love of family, her tribe of women, good coffee, red wine and writing articles. A former Australian television news reporter, she moved to the Middle East with her husband and four children six years ago. Kellie has a degree in nothing, was an under whelming student and barely ever finished a school assignment. She never imagined that she could finish a book 'What will I wear to your funeral?' Is her first and (almost certainly) last.
It is deeply moving but not trite and answers questions I didn't even realise I had about dying. I cried, laughed and it made me assess my own relationships. It made me want to spend some wine fuelled evenings with the Curtains This is a love story. I feared that my own experience of loss would make reading about the intimacy of dying too painful but it is done in a way that I actually I found it comforting. I love reading books you just can't put down and this was one of them! It's like a two way experience. An extraordinary feeling and I felt healing for my own grief. That's quite an achievement. I never re-read books but I know there will be a time when I will want to re-read this one. It had me sucked in from the very beginning and I read it like a speeding train. I am heading out to buy myself a new lipstick today.