Pure, unadulterated fun. As this is a book about a ghost coming back to be with her fiancée while also acting as a heavenly matchmaker you will get the gist of the tone of this story. Not to be taken too seriously this is a great bit of escapism that will have you laughing, gasping and crying. Lucy Brown is an adorable character and you will be routing for her all the way.
'What would I do without you, Lucy Brown?' he said, and kissed me softly. I held his face in my hands and kissed him back. I felt that life just couldn't get any more perfect. And I was right, it wouldn't. By the end of the next day, I'd be dead. Lucy is about to marry the man of her dreams - kind, handsome, funny Dan - when she breaks her neck the night before their wedding. Unable to accept a lifetime's separation from her soulmate, Lucy decides to become a ghost rather than go to heaven and be parted from Dan. But it turns out things aren't quite as easy as that. When Lucy discovers that Limbo is a grotty student-style house in North London she's less than thrilled. Especially after meeting her new flatmates: grumpy, cider-swilling EMO-kid Claire; and Brian, a train-spotter with a Thomas the Tank Engine duvet and a big BO problem. But Lucy has a more major problem on her hands - if she wants to become a ghost and be with Dan she has to complete an almost impossible task. How the hell does a girl like Lucy find a girlfriend for the dorkiest man in England? IT geek Archie's only passions are multi-player computer games and his Grandma. But Lucy only has twenty-one days to find him love. And when she discovers that her so-called friend Anna is determined to make a move on the heart-broken, vulnerable Dan, the pressure is really on...
Cally Taylor currently lives in Brighton. She started writing fiction in 2005 and was awarded the Runner up prize in the Woman's Own short story competition in 2006 and won the Helen Mullin Awards and Bank Street Writers short story competitions in the same year. Her stories have been published by Take a Break Fiction Feast and My Weekly. Heaven Can Wait is her first novel.
