Heaven Can Wait

A fabulously warm, funny and romantic novel that will have you laughing and crying in equal measure.

''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...