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Losing a Child (Paperback)

by Linda Hurcombe (Author)
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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Sheldon Press (23 April 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0859698866
  • ISBN-13: 978-0859698863
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 49,854 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This book gives an understanding of how grieving for a child can affect every member of the family, and the relationships between the surviving members. It goes on to explain the different types of support available, and how they can be accessed. A special chapter deals with sudden or violent death.

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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Read For Anyone Who Has Lost a Child, 29 Aug 2004
By Aileen (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This is an indisputably touching and insightful book that could not have been written by someone who had not experienced the loss of a child firsthand. It has been written with the depth, sensitivity, clarity and understanding of one who has been there. Author Linda Hurcombe has been able to eloquently translate the often frightening and overwhelming grief into thoughts and feelings with which all bereaved families can all identify. The book also explores how the loss of a child impacts relationships and recognises the effects of grief of everyone within the family unit.

We learn about the author's loss of her own 19-year-old daughter to suicide in 1998, in addition to the experiences of other families, all of whom have lost children of different ages in different ways.

In addition to being able to connect to the raw pain of surviving families, the book offers practical and comforting strategies to help parents move positively through their grief, whilst importantly acknowledging that there is no "getting over it" in any way, shape or form. You will not find some unrealistic 12-stage grief plan or patronising advice, because the author's own experience lends itself to a candidness and recognition that grief has no schedule and that total healing is a fallacy. It helps parents to understand why the grief doesn't diminish, but how they can learn to build a new life around that dark, sinister hole. It shows that whilst our lives without our children expand around the core of grief, it remains the same size and that the smallest trigger can hurl us back into that hole without warning.

Through each chapter, you will find yourself breathing a sigh of relief and saying, "That's it exactly", or "Thank goodness I'm not the only one who feels like this". Unlike so many grief recovery books, this one is neither remote nor academic and the author's words truly relate to one's own grief.

Not only will this book be an invaluable source of comfort to bereaved families, but should also be read by anyone who knows someone who has lost a child, grandchild or sibling. The book offers suggestions on what and what not to say, irrespective of how long ago the child died. It is a book that will help the non-bereaved respond more appropriately and less insensitively to a bereaved family's distress.

Losing a Child is a poignant but consoling book that I would highly recommend for all bereaved families, whether their loss is new, or whether they are already several years into the lifelong grieving process.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A genuinely helpful book, 1 Mar 2006
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For those of us who have had to go through this terrible process, this book is a real aid to survival.
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