A Change for the Better is a 1969 novel by English writer Susan Hill,[1] published by Hamish Hamilton.

The novel is set one November in a seaside town where Deirdrie Fount and her mother Winifred Oddicott run a drapery shop.

Also in the town are Major Bertram Carpenter and his wife Flora who are residents in a large plush hotel.

Bertram met his elderly friend Mr Isepp every couple of days but when the Carpenters return from a cruise from the West Indies he finds that his friend is ill. Bertram visits him at the hospital where Mr Isepp dies - Bertram is shocked by his friends death, aware of his own mortality and also blames the doctors...

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