Book 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.
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. This is her first novel.
