The Deed

By Susannah Begbie,

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MEET THE EDWARDS FAMILY. Tom Edwards is dying, and cranky. He's made his peace with the dying part. But he'd bet his property - the whole ten thousand acres of it - that there'd be no wailing at his funeral. His kids wouldn't be able to chop down a tree,…


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A father's will states that none of his adult children will inherit its 10,000 acre farm and assets unless they can all cooperate to make his coffin in four days. The novel is written from the viewpoint of each child, of the family solicitor, and of the father Tom (although he's already dead he tells the story as if he's alive and it works). The novel is written in past tense and close third person point of view. This is a well written book, very polished, and I finished it in two days. The very short chapters add to the…

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