The Adult Orphan Club

Book cover of The Adult Orphan Club: How I Learned to Grieve the Loss of My Parents

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A vulnerable, honest and deeply personal guide to finding your way through grief.
Flora Baker was only twenty when her mum died suddenly of cancer. Her coping strategy was simple: ignore the magnitude of her loss. But when her dad became terminally ill nine years later, Flora was forced to…

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Naomi Westerman

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Flora Baker's nonfiction guide combines a heart-wrenching memoir detailing her personal experience of a form of grief rarely discussed: losing both your parents in early adulthood, with an intensely practical guide for what to do when someone you love dies or is going to die.

I met Flora when we were interviewed on BBC Women's Hour together, and I wish I'd had this exact book to help guide me after my parents died because it provides invaluable advice on how to handle the bureaucracy of death, how to plan a funeral, how to clear someone's house after they have died,…

From Naomi's list on coping with bereavement.