Review: About the healing process of grieving
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2012
You know how you forget abvout some books almost straight after reading them. This one is going to stay with me for a long time.I thought how the author manages to make all characters come alive incredible - I was not surprised to read at the end of the book she is a grief therapist herself. Each chapter is seen through one character's eyes - both parents, Gregory (a friend of the family), and their therapist they don't know they share and who struggles with problems of her own on top of trying to keep all confidentiality issues straight!It's a great, clever insight into the process of grieving.The story is tragic but never becomes depressing or over-dramatic, because the characters are fighters. The little girl's drowning is terrible, but it's the starting point of the story : how parents can manage living with the inthinkable and survive the grief, meanwhile struggling for their marriage that's exploded under the guilt, blame and anger.(I thought it was really clever from the author to give an unusual name to the little girl who dies, so no parents reading the book do an immediate identification with their own child.)The psychological evolution and slow healing of the family is in a way, heartening -I thought there was a strong message of hope in it.