I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This
Book description
'Beautiful, heart-breaking and yet overwhelmingly hopeful' Mike Gayle
Grief is universal, but it's also as unique to each of us as the person we've lost. It can be overwhelming, exhausting, lonely, unreasonable, there when we…
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Why read it?
1 author picked I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
How to form a book around grief once the healing has started to happen. Clare takes us on her own painful jounrney of losing a child and manages to create a series of promises that steady the emotions and give a name to the pain, during tumultuous times. It is a difficult read at times, due to the themes but ultimately, I promise it won´t always hurt like shines with hope and understanding.
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