{"product_id":"an-ocean-and-a-day-by-hannah-richell-9781460768761","title":"An Ocean and a Day","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn utterly riveting, moving and poignant memoir of grief and loss that will speak to anyone who's ever lost someone they love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Ocean and a Day\u003c\/em\u003e is Hannah Richell's personal account of losing her husband, Matt, in a surfing accident on Tamarama beach in 2014. It is the story of the grief journey she travelled over the first two years of loss, but it is also, more uniquely, an account of what happens beyond those early years, when time and distance offer some perspective and healing. As well as a beautiful, moving and utterly poignant love letter to her late husband, it is also a love letter to Australia, the country that stole her heart; the story of her journey into motherhood; and a testament to the healing power of creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA riveting, moving and uplifting memoir of love and pain, grief and hope, \u003cem\u003eAn Ocean and a Day\u003c\/em\u003e will resonate with anyone who's ever lost someone they love. Offering solidarity to other broken hearts, this book is about how we face the hardest days of our lives—and its many gritty little pearls of insight and hard-won wisdom will spark conversations about how we confront, discuss and process the very real, very human experience of loss in our modern, often secular age. Intimate, powerful and profound, \u003cem\u003eAn Ocean and a Day\u003c\/em\u003e will join the canon of those classic memoirs of loss and abrupt, unwanted life changes such as Joan Didion's \u003cem\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/em\u003e, Amy Bloom's \u003cem\u003eIn Love\u003c\/em\u003e and Geraldine Brooks's \u003cem\u003eMemorial Days\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A searing reflection on the fragility of life which never loses sight of the miraculous beauty of being alive.' Leigh Sales, \u003cem\u003eAny Ordinary Day\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'So much love in every beautiful word. My heart hurt so much and yet I could not look away. The writing is vital and filled with so much sorrow and so much love. Sublime.' Favel Parrett, \u003cem\u003eThere Was Still Love\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Hannah Richell writes about grief and its aftermath with excoriating honesty and with exceptional beauty. A work of great tenderness, a celebration of love and of life. I loved it.' Kathryn Heyman, \u003cem\u003eCircle of Wonders\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Raw, unflinching, tender, hopeful—Richell pulled me through her loss as if it were my own. This is grief writing at its very best.' Emma Grey, \u003cem\u003eThe Last Love Note\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47415518036204,"sku":"9781460768761","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/91Q8cdFSlXL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774212982","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/an-ocean-and-a-day-by-hannah-richell-9781460768761","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}