June Pepper's husband is death, but the though tabloid writer leaved his wife a last order: She should, so he had told her, write a journal about her grief about his death. June does - and by doing so she learns a lot about herself, her late husband and the marriage she lived in for years. With this book Keith Waterhouse gives us once again an insight in a life - and how greatly he does! His June is a wife I'd like to meet: She's intelligent, she's thoughtfull, sensitive and she's gotten a wonderful sense of humour and self-irony. She speaks her mind, free of wrong sentimentality and she makes us hope with her, laugh her, become sad with her. It's a book one wants to read more then once.