DESCRIPTION
Meet Teddy Dickerson from Durban, a cynical, single, middle-aged lawyer who’s the very last of his family in South Africa. What’s left for him? A slow decline and a place at the old-age home where his prickly Aunt Val lives, no doubt.
But life sometimes brings surprises. When Aunt Val dies, she leaves an unusual bequest: her task for Teddy is to post letters to eight of her friends around the world, a job that will take him on a journey into new and unexpected territory.
When the replies start flowing in – quirky, unexpected and often hilarious missives from India, Egypt, England and America – Teddy realises there was more to his tough old aunt than he’d thought. Will he take on Aunt Val’s role as confidant and comforter of the lost? Could he?
This warm-hearted story from a talented author offers shrewd commentary on love, death, friend¬ship, age and truth, and will have you laughing out loud. As a lawyer, the author has drawn on first-hand experience for the novel’s sub-plot, concerning an interesting and complex family court case.