Grief Biography

One evening, Carolina says good night to her partner, Aksel. Things have been tough for both of them recently, especially with an eight-month-old son to raise. So when Aksel dies unexpectedly in the night, Carolina’s world is turned upside-down. Based on the author's own experiences, Let’s Hope for the Best details the small moments of life before and after tragedy. It’s a story about motherhood, family and the difficulties of loving someone who is distant, and then who is gone.

In memory of their young daughters - Sophie, Beth and Emily - who took their own lives, three dads set out on a 300-mile journey across the country, from the windswept Lakeland fells and Peak District dales to the open plains of the Eastern fens. Putting one foot in front of the other in spite of their pain, they capture the hearts of the nation; laughing together, crying together, fighting to be heard. This book, built around personal diary entries, grew from a place of great grief and loss, but is also about the power of speaking out, of friendship and hope (and blisters).

Nicky, a witty, intelligent, and clever 13-year-old, was diagnosed with a rare childhood bone cancer. However, this book is about more than cancer and its treatment and the fight to survive. It's about more than a mother and her son who accepted his mortality at such a young age and the strength and love between two loving souls.

Escrito após a morte do pai de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie em junho de 2020, durante a pandemia de covid-19 que mantinha distante a família Adichie, Notas sobre o luto é um poderoso relato sobre a imensurável dor da perda e as lembranças e resiliência trazidas por ela. Consciente de ser uma entre milhões de pessoas sofrendo naquele momento, a autora se debruça não só sobre as dimensões familiares e culturais do luto, mas também sobre a solidão e a raiva inerentes a ele.

British mother Rosie Ayliffe thought her 21-year-old daughter, Mia, would be safe travelling around Australia on a gap year. But Mia wanted to extend her visa and in order to do that needed to find 88 days of work on a farm - a requirement that would lead to catastrophic events. Four short days after Mia moved to a hostel in Queensland to take a job on a sugarcane farm, she was brutally murdered.

What are the things we live for? What matters most in life when your time is short? This brave, frank and heartbreaking book shows what it means to die before your time; how to take charge of your life and fill it with wonder, hope and joy even in the face of tragedy. Ambitious and talented, Kate Gross worked at Number 10 Downing Street for two British Prime Ministers whilst only in her twenties. At thirty, she was CEO of a charity working with fragile democracies in Africa.

In the powerful memoir, Navigating the Stormy Seas: My Journey of Triumph, Dr. Hilary Adams invites listeners on a transformative odyssey that resonates with the power of human resilience, unwavering faith, and the enduring spirit. The storm struck unannounced. With three harrowing words, "You have cancer," Dr. Adams found herself plunged into a tempest of fear, uncertainty, and despair. Yet, instead of succumbing, she anchored herself in her deep-rooted faith, turning her story from one of impending tragedy to a tale of hope and triumph.

A lifetime of finding punchlines in his heartache comes to a shuddering stop when comedian and writer Shawn Hitchins loses two great loves, five months apart, to sudden death. In this deeply poignant memoir that combines sober self-portrait with tender elegy, Hitchins explores the messiness of being alive: the longing and desire, scorching-earth anger, raw grief - and the pathway of healing he discovers when he lets his heart remain open.

From the frontlines of the NHS, the story of a junior doctor's love, loss and grief through the Covid-19 crisis. In early 2020, junior doctor Roopa Farooki lost her sister to cancer. But just weeks later, she found herself plunged into another kind of crisis, fighting on the frontline of the battle taking place in her hospital, and in hospitals across the country. Everything Is True is the story of Roopa’s first 40 days of the Covid-19 crisis from the frontlines of A&E and the acute medical wards as she battles for her patients’ and colleagues’ survival.

In "Not Now Please: Living through Racism, Ableism, and Grief," Elizabeth takes you on an intimate journey through the intersecting worlds of adversity, resilience, and transformation. This compelling narrative is a candid exploration of personal experiences that touch upon the deep-rooted issues of racism, ableism, and the complexities of grief.

What if you came home one day and found your husband dead in his favorite chair? This grief memoir explores the author’s experience of the unexpected death of her husband from sudden cardiac arrest a mere three months after his doctors had pronounced him hale and healthy. The author shares her experiences in the immediate aftermath of the abrupt shock of discovery, reminisces about the details of the couple’s late-in-life courtship and marriage, and imparts other experiences she has had along the grieving road in the years since becoming a widow.

Balena è la storia di un corpo che cambia e diventa gigantesco, ma è anche la storia di una donna che si riappropria di sé grazie a quel corpo. Dopo la perdita del padre, a soli undici anni, Giulia inizia a cercare di colmare quel vuoto enorme col cibo, finendo per passare da 40 a 96 chili in pochi mesi. Poi, insieme al corpo, cominciano a crescere il rifiuto di sé e la vergogna, mentre compagni e insegnanti iniziano a trattarla in modo diverso. Un memoir toccante e acuto che racconta la stigmatizzazione del corpo, il superamento del lutto e la ricerca di un nuovo inizio.

After the death of her partner of 32 years, Lisa Appignanesi was thrust into a state striated by rage and superstition in which sanity felt elusive. The dead of prior generations loomed large and haunting. Then, too, the cultural and political moment seemed to collude with her condition: everywhere people were dislocated and angry. In this electrifying and brave examination of an ordinary enough death and its aftermath, Appignanesi uses all her evocative and analytic powers to scrutinize her own and our society’s experience of grieving, the effects of loss and the potent, mythical space it occupies in our lives.

"Dear Angel" is a poignant and deeply personal collection of letters, each addressed to a significant person in my life, both living and deceased. The book explores themes of loss, grief, redemption, and the complex bonds of family and friendship within a challenging urban environment. The letters to Nick, Grandma Lil, Danny, Sasha, Grandpa, and West are filled with raw emotion, expressing my grief and longing for those who have passed away. These letters serve as a way for me to process his emotions, reflect on shared memories, and acknowledge the impact these individuals had on my life.

Love, Life , Grief and Joy gives real-life glimpses into things none of us want to believe will ever happen to us. In the process of Donna Jean telling this true story, we see not just the pain and suffering of grief and death, but also the reflections of a woman dealing with life and all its ups and downs. She knows that God is in charge and no matter what happens next, he will get her through, smiling or laughing through her tears.

Într-o istorisire tensionată, ce evoluează ca o numărătoare inversă, Brigitte Giraud încearcă să înțeleagă ce a dus la accidentul de motocicletă produs pe 22 iunie 1999, care l-a costat viața pe soțul ei. Douăzeci de ani mai târziu, ea trece în revistă evenimentele și analizează pentru ultima oară întrebările rămase fără răspuns. Hazard, destin, coincidențe? Revine asupra zilelor care și-au grăbit curgerea într-un șir de dereglări imprevizibile până la producerea inevitabilului.

"Ein paar Jahre werden Sie schon noch leben!" - wie der Autor mit dieser Diagnose umging Im Alter von 26 Jahren wurde Helmut Retzl mit einer schockierenden Diagnose konfrontiert, die ihn aus seinen Lebensträumen riss: ein schwerer Fall von Multipler Sklerose - keine Chance auf Heilung und nur mehr wenig Lebenszeit. Zum ersten Mal traf Helmut Retzl auf das Phänomen "unheilbar". Heute ist der Autor 57 und fühlt sich wie neugeboren. Helmut Retzl ist kein Vertreter einer neuen Heilslehre und kein Wunderguru, doch er hat nie aufgegeben und sich nie aufgeben lassen.

His life was one devastating blow after another, losing multiple family members over the years to suicide, growing up in foster care, and being bullied. How does one pull themselves out of a storm like that? Surviving Loss: My Journey of Hope follows a man who often has reason to ask Why me? Many people ask themselves the same question when life pummels them, but this is a story of hope and coming out the other side, of recognizing the gifts and blessings between the pain and struggle.

The Van Meters would consider themselves an interesting family of five, each one adventurously pursuing life in a unique way but connected always by love. But then, something happened to change all of their lives. On March 16, 2008, one of them decided to leave the earthly family. In this book, Corinne Van Meter takes us on a journey through her adjustments and realizations after her twenty-six year-old daughter, Vicki, took her own life.

في الثالث عشر من نوفمبر عام 2015 فقد الصحفي "أنطون لاريس" زوجته "هيلين مويال" حيث اقتحم مسلحون مسرح الباتكلان في فرنسا وقاموا بإطلاق النار بشكل عشوائي مما أدّى إلى حدوث مجزرة يذكرها العالم إلى يومنا الحاضر، هذه الحادثة دفعت "لاريس" لأن يدوِّن كتابًا عن اللحظات التي عاشها أثناء تلقيه الخبر وكيف ذهب لرؤية زوجته وكيف يتولى الاعتناء بطفلهما الذي لم يبلغ عامه الثاني بعد.