My story begins where most women hope theirs will end - with a big, white wedding. After all, isn't that how every good fairy tale finishes?
I thought so. And at 23 it seemed my 'happy ever after' was secure.
I'd met the man of my dreams whilst on a gap year in Australia. Less than a month later he proposed and I accepted. But within twelve months he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and though we were able to marry he died just three weeks later.
You'd never guess I was a widow at 23. I've learnt to hide it well. Because what choice do you have when you've lost the love of your life almost as soon as you found him? The way I saw it, there were only two options...
A) Dress in black, become a recluse and watch your wedding video on a loop
OR
B) Decide falling in love again is out of the question and choose an easy, uncomplicated alternative - sex...
Funny, powerful, and painfully honest, WIFE, INTERRUPTED examines the complicated process of grieving - and proves that sometimes the most unthinkable things can be the most comforting
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This moving, warts-and-all real-life story of a young woman's experience of crippling bereavement and her desperate attempts to move on is heartbreaking - but manages to be hopeful and optimistic at the same time
(Heat )A powerful and honest account of love, grief and starting again, it's moving and sad, but also surprisingly funny. You'll love it
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This moving story of a young woman's experience of crippling bereavement is hopeful and optimistic at the same time
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Uber Reader
Format:Hardcover
An absolutley amazing book. I cried all the way through!
Brutally honest, I was blown away by the emotional intensity and feeling. The author has written a truly heartfelt and intensly personal record of her love and loss and how she dealt with the grief.
For me it was one incredible journey as a reader. Fantastically written.
Brutally honest, I was blown away by the emotional intensity and feeling. The author has written a truly heartfelt and intensly personal record of her love and loss and how she dealt with the grief.
For me it was one incredible journey as a reader. Fantastically written.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Naomi Chard
Format:Hardcover
Totally Absorbing!
This book is an extremely powerful and courageous account of how a young woman, overwhelmed with grief, finds her way through life. The author writes with scalding honesty about her feelings on living with, and survival after the death of, her ternminally ill husband who displayed such unbelievable and insurmountable courage. In this moving account, the author examines the kaleidoscope of emotions experienced by herself, family and friends, as she does what is necessary to live again. This book is written from the heart and, although some scenes are unbearably heartbreaking, the essence of this story is 'Love.' In parts, it is so tenderly and beautifully written that I felt it was an emotional celebration of an extraordinary love - as a reader I found myself grieving for a man I have never even met and a love I never shared.
I applaud this woman's courage and honesty.
This book is an extremely powerful and courageous account of how a young woman, overwhelmed with grief, finds her way through life. The author writes with scalding honesty about her feelings on living with, and survival after the death of, her ternminally ill husband who displayed such unbelievable and insurmountable courage. In this moving account, the author examines the kaleidoscope of emotions experienced by herself, family and friends, as she does what is necessary to live again. This book is written from the heart and, although some scenes are unbearably heartbreaking, the essence of this story is 'Love.' In parts, it is so tenderly and beautifully written that I felt it was an emotional celebration of an extraordinary love - as a reader I found myself grieving for a man I have never even met and a love I never shared.
I applaud this woman's courage and honesty.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By JLR Barnsley
Format:Hardcover
This book is breathtakingly honest and I do mean that quite literally! The way it describes love and loss so brutally makes you want to hug the person you love and be truly grateful for what you have. It's a rare book that can evoke such spirit and amazing that a person can bear to write about what they lived through so intelligently. There is an awful lot to get out of this book; far more than just `make em cry' trash it really draws the reader through the joy and desperation and out the other side. Anyone that needs to do some thinking about love and loss should take notice and forget self help books - read this.
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Didn't get into it
I bought this book but just couldn't get my head into it at all. I read to about halfway through and gave up, it just wasn't keeping my attention at all. Read more
Published 4 months ago by SNTM
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I write this as a fellow widow
I ordered Wife, Interrupted a few weeks ago, and last night I sat down and opened it. I read it cover to cover in a couple of hours. Read more
Published on 19 Aug 2010 by Broogle
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Stark and memorable
This book is amazing. Full stop. Wife, Interrupted is one of those books that stays with you long after closing the last page. Read more
Published on 16 Jun 2010 by A. L. Rutter
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Perfect
In a good way, 'Wife, Interrupted' is not what I expected.
I was expecting a run of the mill book about loss and finding love again. Read more
I was expecting a run of the mill book about loss and finding love again. Read more
Published on 20 April 2010 by pearlsgirl
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Refreshingly honest
Thank you Amy for breaking the taboo around sex after being bereaved... I too am a young widow... and cried my way through your book, in my case I had 2 young babies to care for. Read more
Published on 13 April 2010 by Olivia Galvin
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Sex to heal grief
Reading this book was almost a revelation to me, as I had also had a period in my life where I used sex to alleviate the pain of heartbreak, and wrote about it. Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2010 by Sienna Lewis
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Totally Absorbing
Totally absorbing, couldn't put it down. A very honest and brave personal account of a very tough year. It has all you could ask for in a story, love, death and sex.
Published on 11 Feb 2010 by Matt LD
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Recommended
An utterly absorbing and heart wrenching book that I was unable to put down. The author is to be congratulated on a well written honest account of what must have been a very... Read more
Published on 7 Oct 2009 by T. Burt
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Wife Interrupted
My heart goes out to Amy who has gone through so much for someone so young. The book was well written and gave a honest and hearfelt account of her experiences, very brave. Read more
Published on 25 Aug 2009 by Lynn
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Wife Interupted
Being a young widow myself, this book was such a relief, cried all the way through at the honesty & my own grief as our stories are on similar. Read more
Published on 13 Aug 2009 by Claire
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