I wanted to share a new book I’m reading called The Best Way To Bury Your Husband by Alexia Casale. I received a physical copy of the book in exchange for this review. Inside this post is my affiliate links. If you click on the links and make a purchase I will make a small percentage from the products you purchase.
The Best Way To Bury Your Husband is the first book of Alexia Casale I’ve read. Have you had the opportunity to read any of her books? If so what did you think of her books? I believe The Best Way To Bury My Husband is a mystery book.
David is so funny I mentioned the book to him and he said don’t you mean The best Way TO Bury Your Children because Charlies friends have been driving me up the wall. I let David know that a book about children would e more inline if I was going to bury someone.
David said just encase I change my mind he was going to sleep with one Eye open that way if I decided to practice he could take care of himself. Now, before you think I’m a MONSTER I’m not and I would never hurt my husband or the kids. I love them.
The story will make you laugh and even cry at times. I loved the bond between the 4 women. The Author did a great job teaching us about Domestic Violence. She also reminded us about Covid which I don’t think anyone will ever forget.
The Best Way To Bury Your Husband is about several abused wives who find each other and through their friendship find freedom from there abusive spouses Sally is a decent character and impromptu leader for the burial club.
Sally found her strength as many suppressed women do, through her kids and friends. I found myself cheering for their success, even thought it was murder and wrong for someone to do. The true gem of the story was the friendship angle. Through the story we got a glimpse into what would happen if women ruled the world, we’ would have a world worth ruling.
About: The Best Way to Bury Your Husband
A dark comedy about four women coming together to heal the damage their husbands have done––and hide their bodies once they’ve killed them
When Sally kills her husband with a cast-iron skillet, she’s more fearful of losing her kids than of disposing of a fresh corpse. That just wouldn’t be fair—not after twenty years of marriage to a truly terrible man. But Sally isn’t the only woman in town reaching the brink. Soon, Sally finds herself leading an extremely unusual self-help group, and among them there are four bodies to hide. Can they all figure out the perfect way to bury their husbands . . . and get away with it?
First to join is former nurse, Ruth, who met her husband as a single mom. Now her son is grown and her husband’s violence builds by the day until an attack on the stairs leads to a fatal accident—for him. A few doors down, Samira’s last straw comes when she discovers her husband is planning a campaign of violence against her eldest daughter, who has just come out.
Janey, Sally’s best friend, has just had her first child at forty-two. Sleep-deprived Janey needs a hero to slay the monster in the fairy tales she whispers to her daughter each night . . . and as her husband’s violence escalates, it might just be her.
Together, fueled by righteous anger but tempered by a moral core, the four women must help each other work out a plan to get rid of their husbands for good. Along the way, Sally, Ruth, Samira and Janey rediscover old joys and embark on new passions in work, education, and life. Friendship and laughter really are the best medicine—and so is getting away with murder.
About the Author: Alexia Casale
A British-American citizen of Italian heritage, Alexia is an author, writing consultant and editor. She also teaches English Literature and Writing. Chat to Alexia on Twitter at @AlexiaCasale or via her websites: www.alexiacasale.co.uk and www.thebonedragon.com.
Alexia is also the Director of YA Shot a not-for-profit festival-style Young Adult and Middle Grade Literature event taking place on 28 October 2015 in Uxbridge (London) in partnership with London Borough of Hillingdon Libraries. YA Shot supports a Year-Long Legacy Programme of 35 free author visits for disadvantaged schools in the Borough. Find out more (including how to purchase tickets) at www.yashot.co.uk.
After an MA in Social & Political Sciences (Psychology major) then MPhil in Educational Psychology & Technology, both at Cambridge University, she took a break from academia and moved to New York. There she worked on a Tony-award-winning Broadway show before returning to England to complete a PhD and teaching qualification to become a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In between, she worked as a West End script-critic, box-office manager for a music festival and executive editor of a human rights journal.
Her debut novel, The Bone Dragon, was shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize and the Jugendliteraturpreis, and long-listed for the Branford Boase Award. It was also a Book of the Year for the Financial Times and Independent. House of Windows was published in August 2015, also by Faber and Faber.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
