Grief & Loss

[A] heartfelt memoir New York Times Compelling and heartbreaking Ann Napolitano A deeply moving memoir of a young daughter, her dying mother - and the trail of letters and gifts she left behind. Her messages met me like guideposts in a dark forest; if her words couldn't point the way, at least they offered the comfort of knowing someone had...

In the cost of living crisis, this huge-hearted, generous, empathetic book has never been more timely. Ten-year-old Solo—embarrassingly, that isn't short for anything—just wants to be normal. He wants a name that doesn't stand out. He wishes he had a proper school uniform that fitted him. He dreams about a mum who doesn't get The Big Bad Reds, like his...

The true story behind hit BBC drama The Sixth Commandment [A] real-life Midsomer Murder ... it's chilling, but [David Wilson's] explanation of how a psychopath thinks is masterly - The Times Two deaths. Three doors apart. An unsuspecting community about to realise there's a killer in their midst. In October 2015, Peter Farquhar was found dead in his house in...

'It's an incredible read for anyone facing adversity in their life; how to cope with it, how to stay positive in really difficult situations.' - Sally Nugent 'A throat-catching love letter to his wife and children . . . this lovely man has reframed a universally sad story into a life-enhancing one.' - The Times Sir Chris Hoy knows better...

This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to take his own life. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and holidays, and a life of easy intimacy seemed to...

A guide to start living again for those who have lost a loved one, written by a mother and widow What Must Be Carried: Living a Beautiful Life Beyond Loss is an empathetic guidebook that walks readers through the grieving process, giving them the tools they need to carry the pain of their loss and start truly living again. With...

After the research psychologist Barbara Blatchley lost her husband and partner of thirty-six years, her life changed utterly. Seeking to understand the pain and confusion she felt, Blatchley began exploring the psychology and neuroscience of bereavement. Why does grief last so long and hurt so much? How do we come to terms with loss? In Sorrow’s Long Road, Blatchley interweaves...

Scripting Death offers a comprehensive account of post-compulsory education and training policy in the UK since 1944. It challenges the reader and policymakers to think differently about how to design and implement more successful skills policies in the future.

A journey through the rich histories of textiles that explores their significant cultural roles, from memorialising lost loved ones to resisting oppression. From ancient Egyptian shrouds to medieval relics, textiles have played both functional and symbolic roles in rituals of death across time and place. Featuring funeral hangings, mourning samplers, garments, and many other textiles and fragments, along with works...

A testament to the depth of familial love and our ability to endure in the face of childhood terminal illness Keep Your Head Up is the incredible tale of one family's path to perseverance in the face of devastating odds. When author Tasha Faruqui gave birth to her second daughter, Soraya, she knew immediately that something was wrong. Yet as...

Full of simmering tensions, Katherine Allum's award-winning debut novel, The Skeleton House, pulls back the layers on a seemingly perfect family, exposing the complexities of marriage and motherhood when you are fighting to keep your own identity, no matter the cost. Meg's life is woven into the fabric of St Stephens. It's a tapestry made of two precious children, a...

‘An incredibly useful take on facing grief as a young person’ CARIAD LLOYD ‘Brilliantly, brilliantly written … Packed with clarity, curiosity and courage’ FELIX WHITE ‘It turned on so many lights for me … What a profoundly helpful book’ KATHRYN MANNIX Grief does something particular when it hits you young. This book is a moving exploration of that transformative pain,...

A ground-breaking new framework for embracing middle age and beyond. Middle-age is cross-roadsy—having arrived, you're looking back in wonder about how you got here, and also looking ahead, thinking: where to next? The realisation that neither time nor choices are limitless is both daunting and exciting. This is the moment to take stock and figure out how to make the...

Compelling evidence for afterlife messages backed by scientific research • Presents detailed accounts of experiments conducted to obtain evidence for the survival of consciousness after death, including the author’s own test involving a secret message left behind by his late sister. • Shares interviews with mediums to understand how they receive information from the spirit world and explains how to...

Psychedelic Medicine at the End of Life offers a cutting-edge exploration of the role of psychedelics in the end-of-life experience. This book outlines 10 steps for dying gracefully with the help of psychedelics, including how to navigate the complex legal landscape and find the right guide and therapy. It looks at clinical studies of psychedelics from UCLA, Johns Hopkins, and...

Lessons from the Afterlife by Matthew McKay is a guided journey to discover your soul’s answers to life’s great questions. This book offers a step-by-step process to unleash the unconscious and intuitive wisdom held in the awareness of your soul: Deep Knowledge Meditation. It includes guided journal prompts to help you listen to your heart and shine a light on...

A practical guide to becoming a good Ancestor 2025 Nautilus Silver Award Explains the importance of creating a direct personal connection with Nature and how it is key to becoming an elder who will go on to become a wise Ancestor. Presents exercises and rituals to awaken and deepen your animistic connection to the world and help you intentionally craft...

Coma and Near-Death Experience explores the extraordinary states of expanded consciousness that arise during comas, both positive and negative. Every day around the world, thousands of people are placed in medically-induced comas. For some coma survivors, the experience is an utter blank. Others lay paralysed, aware of everything around them but unable to move, speak, or even blink. Many experience...

Discover how the bonds of life and love transcend death Apparitions at the Moment of Death explains the phenomenon of crisis apparitions: visions of loved ones that are experienced simultaneously with their deaths, even at great distances. It examines a wide range of sources, including history, literature, folklore, theology, and contemporary culture, that demonstrate the timelessness and ubiquity of these...

Stars of the hit television series The Casketeers, as seen on Netflix Francis and Kaiora Tipene aren't your typical funeral directors. With their famous humour and big-hearted personalities, the TVNZ and Netflix reality TV stars are changing the way we think about death and grief. Life as a Casketeer reveals how Francis and Kaiora grew up in families that had...

After his father—the hero and strength of the family—is diagnosed with kidney failure, actor Steve Guttenberg dedicates himself to becoming a caregiver and reflects on their life together, from childhood through his Hollywood career, in his father’s final years. Since moving to Hollywood at age seventeen, Steve Guttenberg has delighted and moved audiences with his film and television work. But...

In this #3 New York Times bestselling memoir, TikTok star and hospice nurse Hadley Vlahos demystifies death with inspiring patient stories. What can people at the end of their lives teach us about living well today? In this heart-warming memoir of wisdom, redemption, and even joy, Hadley Vlahos shares stories from being a palliative care nurse and how patients informed...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A USA TODAY BESTSELLER Featured in Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper Foreword by Serena Williams Unbreakable Entrepreneur to Heartbroken Survivor: Loren Ridinger’s Untold Story of Love, Loss, and Finding Strength to Thrive Again Scrambled or Sunny-Side Up? Living Your Best Life After Losing Your Greatest Love shares Loren Ridinger’s life story—one that began with her husband...

A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life. “Voluntary or involuntary” asked the nurse who admitted J. M. Thompson to a San Francisco psychiatric hospital in January 2005. Following years of depression, ineffective medication, and therapy that went nowhere, Thompson feared he was falling into an inescapable darkness. He decided that...

A major and profound, new original work by the author of The Argonauts and Bluets. It's not the dream that matters, it's the telling of the dream - the words you choose, the risks you take in externalising your mind. This is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends...

A sassy, heart-breaking and jaw-dropping memoir of life behind the scenes in a funeral home and strip club, written with all the panache, honesty and sensitivity of Rosie Waterland's The Anti-Cool Girl and Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner. Emma Jane Holmes had her dream job, working in the funeral industry, caring for those who could no longer care for themselves....

‘Enlightening, moving’ SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives. ‘The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.’ How does one survive the death of a loved one, the...

After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of times from Rosie Batty - a woman who has experienced tragedy, who had lost all hope, yet now is intent on finding it again. On a warm summer's evening in February 2014, eleven-year-old Luke Batty was killed by his father...

A handy poetry companion to keep around in times of difficulty. This supportive anthology of 100 specially chosen poems is here to help. Whatever the shape of your struggle, there's a poem here to guide you through it, providing a shoulder to cry on or a helping hand. There are meditations on the nature of life, grief, and memory, and...

“Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary life in China, and highly recommended for memoir enthusiasts in general.” — Library Journal (starred review) "Chongda paints a tantalizing portrait of a changing China in his dazzling English-language debut. Vessel shines with the bright talent of an excellent storyteller." — Publishers Weekly An unprecedented and heartfelt memoir that illuminates the lives of...

Yogi, mystic, and bestselling author Sadhguru provides a deeper understanding of death so that we can live more fulfilling lives. Death is an inevitable part of our lives, yet most societies have struggled to come to terms with it. Today, we continue to grapple with enduring questions: What is Death? Why do we fear it? What happens after death? Is...

An eloquent, moving, witty and above all useful demonstration of philosophy's power to help us weather the storms of being human — Oliver Burkeman A NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2022 I adore this book . . . Setiya is a deeply astute and generous guide . . . a clear and consoling modern voice, for which...

From the chief medical correspondent of ABC News, an eloquent, heartbreaking, yet hopeful memoir of surviving the suicide of a loved one, examining this dangerous epidemic and offering first-hand knowledge and advice to help family and friends find peace. Jennifer Ashton, M.D., has witnessed firsthand the impact of a loved one’s suicide. When her ex-husband killed himself soon after their...

The bestselling psychotherapist explores what we inherit and how we can create the families we wish for. In her bestselling follow-up to Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass, much-loved psychotherapist Julia Samuel invites us into her sessions as she explores the relationships that have the power to touch us and hurt us most—those with our family. Through eight beautifully...

America’s preeminent fiction writer — New YorkerA raw, propulsive tale of love and grief — Mail on Sunday A novel of love and loss from the bestselling and prizewinning author of Blonde. Michaela and her husband have moved to the starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape of New Mexico to take up an academic residency. But when Gerard is struck by...

The disturbing true story of the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown LA, by its general manager for a decade and star of the controversial Netflix documentary series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. When Amy Price took a temporary design job at an Art Deco hotel in Los Angeles to help a friend, she had no idea the...

Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death—a calamity that claimed her favourite person—she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding...

It isn't quite 'Don't buy any green bananas'. But it's close to 'Don't start any long books'. In his mid-40s, Simon Boas was diagnosed with incurable cancer - it had been caught too late, and spread around his body. But he was determined to die as he had learned to live - optimistically, thinking the best of people, and prioritising...

Nina Sankovitch has crafted a dazzling memoir that reminds us of the most primal function of literature—to heal, to nurture, and to connect us to our truest selves. -Thrity Umrigar, author of The Space Between Us Catalyzed by the loss of her sister, a mother of four spends one year savoring a great book every day, from Thomas Pynchon to...

Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub, Vulture, Time, and a PW 2022 Holiday Gift Pick One of: Time's "100 Must-Read Books of 2022," NPR's 2022 "Books We Love," and Vulture's "10 Best Books of 2022" A Goodreads Readers Choice Award Semifinalist From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi’s...

One woman's journey to overcome grief by delving into an overlooked wonder of nature. As the world of mushrooms opened up to me I began to see that the path back to life was easier than I had thought. It was simply a matter of gathering delights that flash and sparkle. All I had to do was follow the mushroom...

DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is out now! A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can...

In an evocative memoir, Catherine Coldstream describes life as a contemplative nun in the 1990s, and the dramatic events which led to her flight from the monastery on the brink of the Millennium. Evocative - Sarah Perry Immersive - Katherine May Profoundly moving - Mark Haddon Discover Catherine Coldstream's compelling account of life as a nun in the 1990s, and...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF RAGE BECOMES HER, A POWERFUL ARGUMENT FOR COMMUNAL RESILIENCE BASED ON IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE HISTORY, SOCIAL SCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY, POLITICS, AND PERSONAL NARRATIVES BEHIND HOW WE THINK ABOUT CRISIS AND RESPOND TO TRAUMA In this thought-provoking exploration, writer and activist Soraya Chemaly challenges our common, most dearly held myths of resilience and urges us to shift...

Shortlisted for the ABIA Nonfiction Book of the Year 'A tender, touching and at times bloody funny meditation on life. And death. And how to live.' David Wenham 'For as long as I can remember, there has always been just the three of us. Three sisters. Only a year between each. Inseparable. It's been like that for almost 50 years...

Unforgettable . . . a hilarious, poignant and impassioned plea to revolutionise our attitudes to death Gavin Francis, Guardian From her first day at Westwind Cremation & Burial, twenty-three-year-old Caitlin Doughty threw herself into her curious new profession. Coming face-to-face with the very thing we go to great lengths to avoid thinking about, she started to wonder about the lives...

New York Times Bestseller A poignant love letter to Bloom's husband and a passionate outpouring of grief, In Love reaffirms the power and value of human relationships. In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while Amy sat with him and held his hand. Brian was...

Becoming a Matriarch by Helen Knott is a multiweek No. 1 bestseller in the author's native Canada. Intimate and lyrical, this book offers real-life experiences for readers who love stories that inspire and heal. If you enjoy works by authors such as Gabor Maté, Michelle Obama, Glennon Doyle, or Robin Wall Kimmerer, you will find much to admire in Knott's...

An honest look at grief and fears, faith and hope. Combining personal narrative, sound theology, and beautiful writing, this is a book for anyone who has loved and lost. On November 3, 2020, Tim and Aileen Challies received the shocking news that their son Nick had died. A twenty-year-old student at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, he...

A comprehensive sociological look at the laws, pop culture, medicine, and history surrounding female grief and pregnancy loss, how it came to be so stigmatized, and what a system of more compassionate care could look like, from Pulitzer Prize finalist and White House correspondent Colleen Long and freelance journalist Rebecca Little. A must-read investigation of reproductive health under fire in...

The bestselling and ABIA Award shortlisted memoir from Osher Günsberg, one of Australia’s most loved celebrities, about life, love, and living with mental illness—powerful, dark, funny, and heart-wrenching. It's hard to remember a time when Osher Günsberg (or Andrew G as he was then) wasn't on TV—he's just always been there, looking at ease in the spotlight, beaming a big...

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life—and his family’s—as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation’s Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump...

‘A delicious story that wraps itself around your heart’ Evie Woods, bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop It’s been three years, two weeks and one day since Kate Shaw’s life changed forever. Three years, two weeks and one day that Kate has been angry – with herself and life. But today is different. Different because Kate has finally taken the...

NPR SciFri Book Club Pick Next Big Idea Club's "Top 21 Psychology Books of 2022" Behavioral Scientist Notable Books of 2022 A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and learning. In The Grieving Brain, neuroscientist and psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD, gives...

Updated for its 20th anniversary, this classic guide that has helped so many people get through loss now has even more to offer. The new material in this edition includes specific guidelines that will show readers how to choose which grief or loss they should work on first. In addition, losses that were not addressed in the earlier editions will...

New York Times Bestseller An intimate and evocative memoir of one woman’s experience with the universality of grief and the redemptive power of love as she endures her husband’s 84-day battle with lung cancer. When Steph Catudal met her husband Rivs, she thought that the love, stability, and warmth she shared with him had finally dispelled her pent-up anger and grief...

The debut collection from award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'Warsan Shire is an extraordinarily gifted poet whose profoundly moving poems so powerfully give voice to the unspoken.' — Bernardine Evaristo 'Vital, moving and...

Claire Bidwell Smith, a fourteen-year-old only child, learns that both her parents have cancer. The fear of becoming a family of one compels her to make a series of fraught choices, set against the glittering backdrop of New York and Los Angeles - and the pall of regret. When the inevitable happens and Claire is alone in the world, she...

The Bleeding Tree is a poignant memoir of one woman's journey through grief, guided by nature, ritual, and folk tales. It was the last of the ebbing days, the brink of the new season. It was the murky hours, the clove between sunset and sunrise. It was a tall tree with deep roots, and it had been bleeding for a...

As I bumped across the water in a leaky tin dinghy I didn't know that the journey had begun. That the pale yellow house with a corridor of columns and long verandah on the high, rough hill would hold the key to it all... At 44 Susan Duncan appeared to have it all. Editor of two of Australia's top selling...

The visceral and insightful personal story of a Divinity Professor coming to terms with what life really means, as she approaches its close. A SUNDAY TIMES AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR AND INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) asks, how do you move forward with a...

Madeleine is Kate McCann's personal account of the disappearance and continuing search for her daughter, revised and updated for this edition. 'The decision to publish this book has been very difficult, and taken with heavy hearts... My reason for writing it is simple - to give an account of the truth... Writing this memoir has entailed recording some very personal,...

A trail-blazing work of feminist nature writing, which rediscovers and re-imagines how women encounter the natural world. Heartfelt, passionate, infuriating and often devastating, this book will inspire you to fight for your right to tread your own path — CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ, author of Invisible Women When Rachel loses five family members in five months, grief magnifies other absences. Running...

Cory Taylor wrote this remarkable book in the space of a few weeks before her death from cancer in July 2016. In a tremendous creative surge, as her body weakened, she described the experience of knowing she would soon die. Her powerful and beautifully written book is a clear-eyed account of the tangle of her feelings, her reflections on her...

Briefly Perfectly Human is a deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death, from death doula Alua Arthur. The New York Times Bestseller 'Joyful, hilarious, effervescent, brilliant and deeply wise' — Glennon Doyle, on Alua Arthur Thinking deeply about your death—whether it's imminent or not—will breathe wild new potential into your life. Warm, generous and funny, Alua Arthur...

A moving, heartwarming and exquisitely funny memoir about one woman's journey from criminal barrister to pâtissière. Olivia Potts' mother died when she was just twenty-five. Stricken with grief, she did something life-changing and rather ridiculous—she gave up a high-flying legal career to study at the notoriously difficult Le Cordon Bleu, despite not being able to cook. No one ever told...

At 44, Tom Jokinen quit a good government job to work at a family-run funeral home and crematorium as a trainee undertaker. This drastic vocational change gave him an amazing opportunity to explore, first-hand, our culture's relationship with the dead, dying, and left behind. In a modern society where religion has lost its grip on rituals of transition, the funeral...

In this #3 New York Times bestselling memoir, TikTok star and hospice nurse Hadley Vlahos demystifies death through inspiring stories about her patients. What can people at the end of their lives teach us about living well today? In this heart-warming memoir of wisdom, redemption, and even joy, Hadley Vlahos beautifully shares life lessons and stories from being a palliative...

The neuroscientist and best-selling author of The Organized Mind explains what happens to our brains from womb to tomb. We have long been encouraged to think of old age as synonymous with a decline in skills. Yet recent studies show that our decision-making improves as we age, and our happiness levels peak in our eighties. What really happens to our...

A year-long journey by the renowned psychiatrist and his writer wife after her fatal diagnosis, as they reflect on how to love and live without regret. Internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and author Irvin Yalom devoted his career to counselling those suffering from anxiety and grief. But never had he faced the need to counsel himself until his wife, esteemed feminist author...

The son of a Native American anthropologist and a Swiss paleontologist and raised on a Pueblo Indian reservation in New Mexico, author and artist Martin Prechtel is positioned to be a unique cultural interpreter. Trained as a Tzujutil Maya shaman in Guatemala in the 1970s, Prechtel returned to the West in the 1980s to teach workshops and lead groups to...

'Changed my perspective on the whole living world but most of all myself.' – CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN 'Enthralling and packed with insights.' – BILL BRYSON 'A must-read.' – STEPHEN FRY SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 __________ How can science help us live better and longer? We are living through an exciting revolution in biology. Giant strides...

Fierce Elegy by Peter Gizzi is a powerful new collection that delves into the transformative power of elegy, exploring themes of lament and love. This poignant work arose in the wake of Gizzi’s diagnosis with a very rare blood disease in March 2021. Composed with both deliberation and unprecedented speed, the book navigates the poet’s reflections on his own impending...

For two thousand years, cadavers – some willingly, some unwittingly – have been involved in science’s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They’ve tested France’s first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure,...

In Walking Each Other Home, Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush invite readers on an intimate exploration of life and death, interweaving their personal experiences with timeless spiritual wisdom. Rather than providing conventional theories about the end of life, this book eloquently portrays death as a journey of love, curiosity, and ultimate transformation. Together, these two spiritual luminaries delve deeply into...

NEW STATESMAN, THE TIMES AND EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 “Full of sense, heart and hope . . . the friend you need when you’re grieving” – PHILIPPA PERRY “This book is a game-changer. Read it before you need to” – DR KATHRYN MANNIX “It’s honest and warm and funny (in all the right places)” – JULIA SAMUEL When...

'Intensely readable, poetic, truthful, wise and wonderful.' STEPHEN FRY 'A message of beauty and optimism.' JOANNA LUMLEY 'Stunningly beautiful, immensely sad, immensely uplifting.' GEORGE MONBIOT 'Extraordinarily powerful and moving... a book of universal wisdom.' BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH 'Beautiful and deeply moving.' ISABELLA TREE 'An extraordinary book.' SUNDAY TIMES 'Unfathomable tragedy chronicled with profound love and compassion.' RICHARD E. GRANT 'Emotive, raw...

From the author of the megaselling phenomenon QUIET, the no. 1 NYT bestseller on how to turn sorrow into beauty - and even joy. Whether you long for the partner who broke up with you, or the one you dream of meeting; whether you hunger for the happy childhood you'll never have, or for the divine; whether you yearn for...

A TikTok sensation! Kristan Higgins has created a gorgeous study of life, love and grief in this beautiful and heart-breaking love story. Joshua Park never expected to be a widower at the age of thirty. Given his solitary job, small circle of friends and family, and the social awkwardness he's always suffered from, he has no idea how to negotiate...

Listen by Kathryn Mannix is described as 'Powerful, humane and wise' by Julia Samuel, with Nigella Lawson stating 'Everyone should read it'. Philippa Perry calls it 'Beautiful … This is a book for everyone. You feel held by it'. Most of us have a conversation we’re avoiding. From the bestselling author of With the End in Mind, this is a...