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

By (author) Rachel Wilson

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â€˜An incredibly useful take on facing grief as a young personâ€™ CARIAD LLOYD 'Brilliantly, brilliantly written â€¦ Packed with clarity, curiosity and courage' FELIX WHITE â€˜It turned on so many lights for me â€¦ What a profoundly helpful bookâ€™ KATHRYN MANNIX Grief does something particular when it hits you young. This book is a moving exploration of that transformative pain, from the founder of The Grief Network. Rachel Wilsonâ€™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 â€“ or struggle to â€“ 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. Itâ€™s for anyone who mourns a lost future, who is struggling to find themselves after grief, or hopes to feel less alone.