Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a chance to read and review this book.
I had high hopes for this story but as I tried and tried to get into the story, I just could not finish it.
Sorry, maybe it will work for someone else who can get past the parts that drag.

Astonished to see in the author's blurb here states 'prize-winning journalist .... writer and sub-editor'. I would expect someone with this background to use correct grammar. I would say that, as with what seems to be the majority of self-published works, this would benefit from professional proofreading.
An ARC was provided by the publisher in exchange for a review.

I really didn't understand this book. The title implies that it's about the husband but he was such a small, almost incidental, part of the story. In fact, I wonder if the cryogenically frozen husband was only there to explain the single mother of a certain age.

The ex boyfriend from her youth reappears but we're not told why she's so hurt by him. Sure he took off without warning, but why was she so bitter???

How do you move past the death of a loved one if they might come back? Carrie's husband, Dan requests that his body be cryogenically suspended so that he can be brought back after science discovers a way to restore him. While Carrie wants nothing more than to grieve for her husband and move on, Dan's family members and then the public at large prevent her from doing so. This book was an interesting study on how our beliefs about death affect the living.

This book was not what I expected. It went into a totally different direction than I thought it would after reading the summary, and the first few pages. Still, it was an interesting read. I love how the writing flowed well, and how the author managed to make the characters filled with depth.
Written with a sense of humor, and wit, this emotional book was a faced paced read, that I could not put down.

I struggled to work out how I felt about this book. It starts by going into the subject of Carrie's husband Dans wish to be frozen when he dies, in case years later there is a cure and he can be brought back to life. She is left feeling not quite a widow. A really interesting theory, but the story just went off into a different area, with it being about Carrie, her sister in law, her teenage daughter and a man she was in love with in the past. The writing was great and flowed really well but it wasn't the story I was expecting so I ended up not finishing it. Such a shame that I felt unable to finish it, because as stated that was nothing to do with the style of writing.

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The title of this book grabbed me and then I read the synopsis. I really like real life stories and this was a very sensitively written book with some light heartedness here and there. The pace was spot on and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys non fiction or memoirs. Some parts are very emotional and really touched me. I recieved a copy of this title from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Carrie isn't like most widows. Her husband chose cryonics instead of burial or cremation, with the hopes that he could be brought back to life later on. Carrie is trying to move on, help her daughter cope and reconnect with an old love, but when the media hounds her family due to their story, she will have to work through her feelings to find happiness again. Really an interesting read.

I started to read The Husband Who Refused To Die and just could not get to grips with it, the story line jumps around and completely lost me as to what was happening in Carries life. Sorry for a negative review

I received this novel ARC from Netgalley in return for an honest review. Thanks Netgalley.

Carrie is a grieving 40 something widow. Before his untimely passing, her husband made it clear that he wanted to be cryogenically frozen should anything happen. When the unthinkable did happen - an apparent heart attack, his remains were quickly bundled up and shipped off to the United States, leaving Carrie to deal with the fall-out, her grief, her unresolved emotions about being unable to properly say goodbye, as well as a troubled teenage daughter, prying media and most worryingly of all, a series of hateful attacks perpetrated against her.

Just when she thinks she has too much on her plate, an old flame surfaces, re-opening all of the old wounds from his speedy departure from her life twenty years ago.

I must admit I'm a sucker for mysteries, and I chose this one thinking that it would not disappoint. Indeed it did not, but it was less of a mystery - apart from the whodunit of the repeated hate attacks on her property, than it was a story about a woman coming to grips with untimely loss of a loved one as well as loss of control over how to properly say goodbye to her husband.

The story was well written, with an eloquent turn of phrase as well as some wry humor thrown in to lighten the atmosphere. The characters were well developed, although I found Ashley - Carrie's old flame to be annoyingly pretentious, but this was probably by design to highlight the type of person he is.

The novel raised interesting questions about the ethics of cryogenics as well as how the media can keep resurrecting old stories and potentially how much damage this can cause.

All in all, I really enjoyed the novel and would recommend.

Really thought provoking book, exploring what it really means to 'lose' someone. I would really recommend this.