In the book, Charley Bonato does just that, at a very important stage in his life. Charley was essentially raised alone by his mother and, many years later, as a broken man, he decides to take his own life. After a failed attempt to do just that, he ends up spending "just one more day" with his mother.

As the author notes, the story is about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, it could be called a "ghost story"; every family, however, is a ghost story and the dead sit at your table long after they have gone. It’s the sharing of tales of those we've lost that helps us keep from really losing them.

Tomorrow, I’ll tell you a bit more about this remarkable piece of work.

Till then, all the best – Suzana.