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 [...]
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M
y belief is that different books ‘speak’ to us at different times during our journey through grief, and what irritates us during the early months of bereavement may comfort us later, and vice versa. I have a shelf packed with books on bereavement, trauma, working through grief and man’s search for proof of the afterlife, but these are the books that I always recommend because I have personally found them useful and thought provoking, even if there were times when I disagreed strongly with the narrative.
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 afterlife [...]
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A searing account of the first year of widowhood by this acclaimed US novelist. Buy the book
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A book not specifically about grief, but about hope, this outstanding story of the author’s struggle for survival in the Nazi concentration camps [...]
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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 flawed. [...]
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