Losing Young - How to Grieve When Your Life is Just Beginning

Rachel Wilson''s mother died when Rachel was in her twenties. It felt like the definitive end of childhood, a loss that rewired her perspective on life, death, relationships and who she was as a person. In this book, Rachel brings together other stories of bereavement with her own, encountering people who have lost parents, siblings, partners and friends at a young age. Losing Young draws on psychological research, interviews with titans like Julia Samuel and explorations of grief in history: what happens in a time of war or pandemic, when the many grieve - or struggle to - together? How do different cultures process the end of a life differently? How can the grief of losing a parent return in strange form when one thinks about having children? What do TV and fiction get disastrously, unhelpfully wrong? This is a personal and profound book about what happens when youth is reshaped by tragedy, trauma and loss. It''s for anyone who mourns a lost future, who is struggling to find themselves after grief, or hopes to feel less alone.

Product details

• Authors: RACHEL WILSON, Rachel Wilson
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.08.2023
• EAN: 9780008502324
• ISBN: 978-0-00-850232-4
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, True stories, SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, Memoirs, Self-help & personal development, Coping with death & bereavement, True stories: general, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs