Is there a heaven?
Do they have sweets there?
This is the story told in a charming book by Sylvia van Ommen I recently bought from the bookshop at The Tate Modern in London.
Two friends, Oscar (a cat), and Joris (a rabbit), arrange to meet each other [...]
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I read this book long before JS died because I love Justine Picardie’s writing, but this account of Justine’s search for evidence of an [...]Read more -
A searing account of the first year of widowhood by this acclaimed US novelist. Buy the bookRead more -
A book not specifically about grief, but about hope, this outstanding story of the author’s struggle for survival in the Nazi [...]Read more -
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A discussion of what I have always suspected to be the case, which is that the original Kubler-Ross five stages of grief concept is [...]Read more -
One young (and pregnant) British widow’s account of losing her husband in the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11th September [...]Read more -
A weighty tome and not always an easy read (I was furious when the author started dating again), but a very hopeful and [...]Read more -
A handbook for death, and for living a life after death. Buy the bookRead more
