Now is Not the Time for Flowers - What No One Tells You About Life, Love and Loss

This isn't just a grief memoir, this is a new way of talking about living through and with grief.

About the author

Stacey Heale is a writer, speaker, curator, fashion academic and campaigner who is inspiring radically honest discussions on the lived experience of women, focusing on the realities of difficult times and how to rebuild your life from the ground up. Her academic research centres around the use of creativity to process trauma and the concept of the teenage bedroom as a site for identity construction. Stacey's 2018 TED talk focused on post-traumatic growth and the power of social media during a personal crisis. In November 2016, her husband, Delays lead singer Greg Gilbert, was diagnosed with incurable bowel cancer and died in 2021. In that time, she has campaigned for lowering the age of bowel cancer screening in the UK, research into treatments for stage IV cancer patients, access to unfunded drugs on the NHS and the financial rights of widows.

Stacey lives on the south coast of England with her two daughters and their blind toy poodle Milk.

Summary

This isn't just a grief memoir, this is a new way of talking about living through and with grief.

Foreword

A movingly honest and insightful account of modern womanhood filtered through the lenses of love, desire, loss and grief.

Product details

• Authors: Stacey Heale
• Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2024
• EAN: 9781785120251
• ISBN: 978-1-78512-025-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 224 mm x 34 mm
• Weight: 468 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Subject matter intended specifically for women and/or girls, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement