Why therapy is no match for the true madness of GRIEF

MEMOIR THE STATE OF DISBELIEF   by Juliet Rosenfeld (Short Books £12.99, 192 pp) Forty-eight hours after Juliet Rosenfeld’s husband died of lung cancer, she lay back on her psychoanalyst’s couch and attempted to ‘process’ her loss. As a practising psychoanalyst herself, she had attended five personal therapy sessions per week for eight years and was … Read more

Dawn O’Porter candidly details her struggles with grief after the death of friend Caroline Flack

‘I keep waiting for it to feel easier’: Dawn O’Porter candidly details her struggles with grief after the death of her close friend Caroline Flack By Charlotte Dean For Mailonline Published: 23:37 BST, 21 April 2020 | Updated: 23:37 BST, 21 April 2020 Dawn O’Porter has opened up about struggling with grief following the death … Read more

Grief that inspired the Bard

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (Tinder Press £20, 384 pp) Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (Tinder Press £20, 384 pp) This is Maggie O’Farrell’s first foray into historical fiction, and, as with her contemporary work, it’s the ebb and flow of emotions that carry this heartbreaking, beautifully written story along on its melancholy current. On a hazy … Read more