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'Truly the best and most insightful book about grief I have ever read' Joanna
Cannon 'Beautiful, heart-breaking and yet overwhelmingly hopeful' Mike Gayle
Grief is universal, but it's also as unique to each of us as the person we've
lost. It can be overwhelming, exhausting, lonely, unreasonable, there when we
least expect it and seemingly never-ending. Wherever you are with your grief
and whoever you're grieving for, I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This is
here to support you. To tell you, until you believe it, that things will get
easier. When bestselling writer Clare Mackintosh lost her five-week-old son,
she searched for help in books. All of them wanted to tell her what she should
be feeling and when she should be feeling it, but the truth - as she soon
found out - is that there are no neat, labelled stages for grief, or crash
grief-diets to relieve us of our pain. What we need when we're grieving is
time and understanding. With 18 short assurances that are full of compassion -
drawn from Clare's experiences of losing her son and her father - I Promise it
Won't Always Hurt Like This is the book she needed then. PRAISE FOR I PROMISE
IT WON'T ALWAYS HURT LIKE THIS 'That Clare has used her own devastating
experience to help others who are going through something similar is a brave
and hugely laudable thing to do. A book that is both heart-breaking in its
honesty and uplifting in its compassionate approach, it is beautifully written
and offers - implicit in the title - hope' Alan Titchmarsh 'Wherever you are
with your grief, and whoever you're grieving for, this incredibly honest book
was written to support you... full of compassion and comfort' Adele Parks,
Platinum 'A book dripping with a compassion that can only truly be laid out on
the page by a Survivor of the Trenches of Grief . We need now, perhaps more
than ever, beacon-makers like Clare to help guide us through our darkness'
Greg Wise 'A true lifeline if you think no one else can possibly understand
how you feel' Jill Mansell 'Written with honesty, realism, deep personal
insight and hope' Child Bereavement UK 'A salve for broken hearts. Readers
who've been touched by loss will find comfort in these pages.' Publishers
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