A book dying to be read

I have always found myself reading books about the dead and what happens when they have passed on. It's a strange fascination of mine, but I do enjoy learning of how another thinks about the afterlife. Purely imaginative. I'll do my best to describe the story.

Okay, so...It all starts with a whistle. Regina, a social worker for the elderly, lost her husband recently. And she can swear that it's him whistling. Bit by bit, she makes other discoveries which have her thinking she's crazy. So what does she do? She tells her boss and eventually everyone else about it all! Surprisingly, they are not surprised.

Initially, it is just her husband playing tricks on her- no big deal! But then he actually shows up. Uh oh. Her husband tells her all she has to do, for him to stop bothering her, is offer him a dance. He was never able to, when he was alive but now- he was all for it. Trouble is, he can't dance. How do they achieve the impossible? How is she able to see the dead?

I do believe this book would have been quite ordinary had it not been for Regina's humour- just the sort of person you need during those awkward family dinners. I cannot emphasise enough how the humour got to the point where I was silently chuckling or even hiding my smiles behind the palm of my hand. From the moment when she allows her client, Pearl, into her car to how she struggles with her dancing- whilst having insulted her husband about his.

The characters were amazing. And the humour even in the overall writing style was quite extraordinary. What more is required for a book destined to be a success?