It's a Matter of Death...and Life! When Emmeline Mandeville spends the final months of her ninety-third year reflecting on her eccentric, iconoclastic past, she cannot know how profoundly her reminiscences will weave through the lives of the men and women who find themselves living in her house a decade and a half later. "A compelling story full of soul from an author who never disappoints." - Paola Rizzato, Heysham, England