Clare Mackintosh I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This : 18 Assurances on Grief

Truly the best and most insightful book about grief I have ever read Joanna CannonBeautiful, heartbreaking and yet overwhelmingly hopeful Mike GayleGrief is universal, but its also as unique to each of us as the person weve lost. It can be overwhelming, exhausting, lonely, unreasonable, there when we least expect it and seemingly neverending. Wherever you are with your grief and whoever youre grieving for, I Promise It Wont 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 fiveweekold 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 griefdiets to relieve us of our pain. What we need when were grieving is time and understanding. With 18 short assurances that are full of compassion drawn from Clares experiences of losing her son and her father I Promise it Wont Always Hurt Like This is the book she needed then. PRAISE FOR I PROMISE IT WONT ALWAYS HURT LIKE THISThat 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 heartbreaking in its honesty and uplifting in its compassionate approach, it is beautifully written and offers implicit in the title hope Alan TitchmarshWherever... | Clare Mackintosh I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This : 18 Assurances on Grief