- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: John Murray; First edition (2 Nov 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0719563488
- ISBN-13: 978-0719563485
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.4 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 550,372 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Dear Charlie: Letters to a Lost Daughter is about a whole family overwhelmed by loss, but it is also a love letter, a self-help therapy, a soliloquy, a family newsletter and a stumbling towards faith'
(The Daily Telegraph )'Remind[s] us that life is brief and to be valued, which is no small thing'
(The Observer )Product Description
On 3rd December 2005, 13-year-old Charlotte Thompson and her school friend were killed by a train at Elsenham station in Essex. They were crossing the tracks to catch a train to Cambridge to go Christmas shopping. There was no footbridge at the station.
Following her death, Charlie's father began writing a series of remarkable letters to his lost daughter. The letters were his way of continuing to talk to Charlie, of keeping her close to him after death. In them, he writes of his terrible grief, and of family life in the wake of disaster. Through his letters he creates a powerful portrait of his beautiful, vivid and unpredictable daughter. He also describes a family struggling to survive tragedy and the challenges and triumphs of daily domestic life in a world that will never be the same again.
DEAR CHARLIE is a moving family memoir, an account of mourning, and a biography of a lost girl. Above all, it is a powerful love letter from a father to his daughter.
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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If I could give this book ten stars I would.
Reg Thompson succeeds in describing his beautiful daughter so well that you feel you know her personally. The letters are raw and not self-conscious and he is very open and honest in the way he talks about his loss and the way it has devastated his family. Anyone who has suffered a loss themselves will find echoes of their own experience in this book. It can be hard to read and will probably have you in tears. However it is not all gloomy. He talks about many of the good times he shared with his daughter prior to her accident.
I think everyone should read this book and maybe hug their own family and friends a little tighter afterwards. It reminds us (always a good thing) to appreciate our loved ones while we still have them and not to take anything for granted.
Although Reg Thompson wrote the letters without intending to publish them by doing so he has introduced many people to his daughter and no doubt helped other people to try and fathom their own losses and grief.
Finally, I really hope that the family succeeds in getting a bridge built at the station. Network Rail has behaved appallingly and without compassion.
(Read the book and you will understand).
Reg Thompson succeeds in describing his beautiful daughter so well that you feel you know her personally. The letters are raw and not self-conscious and he is very open and honest in the way he talks about his loss and the way it has devastated his family. Anyone who has suffered a loss themselves will find echoes of their own experience in this book. It can be hard to read and will probably have you in tears. However it is not all gloomy. He talks about many of the good times he shared with his daughter prior to her accident.
I think everyone should read this book and maybe hug their own family and friends a little tighter afterwards. It reminds us (always a good thing) to appreciate our loved ones while we still have them and not to take anything for granted.
Although Reg Thompson wrote the letters without intending to publish them by doing so he has introduced many people to his daughter and no doubt helped other people to try and fathom their own losses and grief.
Finally, I really hope that the family succeeds in getting a bridge built at the station. Network Rail has behaved appallingly and without compassion.
(Read the book and you will understand).
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a beatiful but harrowing book. Its not the sort of thing I would normally buy but it caught my eye at an airport bookstall because I have a daughter of the same age and name. I can't read more than two or three of the letters at once before it all gets too much. But the love and the honesty just shine through. Its a huge reminder of what's important in life and what's not. Every parent should read it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
There is only one word that I can use to describe this book and that is "beautiful". The way that Reg Thompson speaks about his daughter is heart breaking but in the same instance it is refreshing as he is so open about his love for his little girl and the loss that his family have endured. I have recently become a parent myself and am not sure if I would have viewed this book the same way if I has read it prior to the birth of my little boy. After reading one letter I felt compelled to lift my boy out of his crib just to hold him near. You will do the same with your loved ones once you have read this book.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
An Amazing Man
Reg Thompson is a wonderful man who i have had the pleasure of knowing in my life. He has taught me and many others effortlessely and always retains a healthy attttiude despite his... Read more
Published on 1 April 2010 by J. Huntigdon
heart breaking
my title say's it all. I started reading this book after an unrelated family tragidy, maybe not the best time to start to read a book of this caliber! Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2009 by Mr. Adam T. Davies
Moving - a real tribute
Not an easy book - though well-written. I never knew Charlie untilI read it - my daughter Olivia died alongside Charlie at the crossing. Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2007 by Mr. Alan Bazlinton
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