Good Grief: Embracing life at a time of death

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The most life-affirming book ever written about death. Sandi Toksvig

One of the most powerful and helpful books about grief that you will ever read. Anita Anand

Grief is more than the price of love. It is love. We must learn not just to live with it, but to make it welcome.
Catherine Mayer and her mother Anne Mayer Bird were widowed at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is their story of supporting each other through whirling grief, sadmin and the darkest of times, as they learn to embrace life again.

Now updated with brand new chapters, Good Grief is an essential companion for loss and a testimony to enduring love. Spiked with wry humour, it is an uplifting, moving and unexpectedly joyous read.

Smart, upbeat and brimming with fortitude Observer

One of the saddest things I've ever read but also the most powerful. It's made me want to cling tight to the people I love while acknowledging their mortality and mine too. Marian Keyes

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One of the saddest things I've ever read but also the most powerful. It's made me want to cling tight to the people I love while acknowledging their mortality and mine too. Marian Keyes

The most life-affirming book ever written about death. Sandi Toksvig

One of the most powerful and helpful books about grief that you will ever read. Anita Anand

A perfect book, specific and personal, but spot on about the universal nature of grief and how we grieve. Every page sings and, though often heart-breaking, it's genuinely an utter pleasure to read. Kate Mosse

Every life has a start, a middle and an end. Everyone prepares for the first two events, but are we doing what we can to prepare for the end Catherine and Anne generously share their experience of widowhood knowing that they can help others prepare and cope with grief. An important book on a very important subject. June Sarpong

Fantastic book, full of beautiful honesty Rio Ferdinand

Smart, upbeat and brimming with fortitude Observer

Exceptionally insightful . . . would be very helpful to anyone who has lost someone dear or who knows someone who has. Which is all of us. Maggie Alderson for the Lady

A powerful read Bella

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Author Bio

Catherine Mayer was born in the US but now lives in London. She is a former editor at large of TIME magazine and the author of the Sunday Times bestselling biography of Prince Charles Charles: The Heart of a King. In 2015 she co-founded the Women's Equality Party with Sandi Toksvig and was named on the Evening Standard's 2016 Progress 1000 list comprising London's most influential people.