''What To Do When Someone Dies'' is a 2009

novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ...

Nicci French Nicci French is the pseudonym of English husband-and-wife team Nicci Gerrard (born 10 June 1958) and Sean French (born 28 May 1959), who write psychological thrillers together. Personal lives Nicci Gerrard and Sean French were married in 1990. ...

. It concerns a young woman whose husband dies in mysterious circumstances, and her struggle to deal with her bereavement and make sense of his death.

Adaptation

The novel was dramatised for television as a three-part series, ''Without You'', in 2011. It was later adapted into a miniseries which now streams on both

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and PBS Passport. The series was directed by

Tim Fywell Tim Fywell is an English television and film director. In 2003 he made his first feature debut with ''I Capture the Castle'', an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Dodie Smith. Fywell directed his first Hollywood feature, ''Ice Prince ...

, and starred

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, and

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. The first episode of the series debuted January 26, 2023.

References

Novels by Nicci French 2009 British novels Penguin Press books {{2000s-novel-stub