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An Ocean and a Day: A powerful and poignant memoir on grief, loss and hope, from the internationally bestselling author of The Search Party

By (author) Hannah Richell





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An utterly riveting, moving and poignant memoir of grief and loss that will speak to anyone who's ever lost someone they love. An Ocean and a Day is Hannah Richell's personal account of losing her husband, Matt, in a surfing accident on Tamarama beach in 2014. It is the story of the grief journey she travelled over the first two years of loss, but it is also, more uniquely, an account of what happens beyond those early years, when time and distance offers some perspective and healing. As well as a beautiful, moving and utterly poignant love letter to her late husband, it is also a love letter to Australia, the country that stole her heart; the story of her journey into motherhood; and a testament to the healing power of creativity. A riveting, moving and uplifting memoir of love and pain, grief and hope, An Ocean and a Day will resonate with anyone who's ever lost someone they love. Offering solidarity to other broken hearts, this book is about how we face the hardest days of our lives - and its many gritty little pearls of insight and hard-won wisdom will spark conversations about how we confront, discuss and process the very real, very human experience of loss in our modern, often secular age. Intimate, powerful and profound, An Ocean and a Day will join the canon of those classic memoirs of loss and abrupt, unwanted life changes such as Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, Amy Bloom's In Love, Geraldine Brooks's Memorial Days and Leigh Sales's Any Ordinary Day.

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Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Published date | 30 Jun 2026
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 256
Dimensions | 0 x 0 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-4607-6876-1
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BISAC | biography & autobiography / personal memoirs


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