Rebecca Abrams is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction. She worked as a bereavement counsellor for Cruse Bereavement Care and at the Cheltenham Ladies’ College for a number of years, and she regularly lectures and leads workshops on young people and parental bereavement. She is a tutor in creative writing at the University of Oxford and writer-in-residence at Larkmead School, Abingdon.

• Foreword to the Third Edition  Introduction  1. My Story  2. First Days, Last Rites  3. Different Deaths, Different Griefs  4. Mourning Time: The First Year  5. Mourning Time: The Second Year and After   6. Changes and Losses: The Private Kind  7. Changes and Losses: The Public Kind  8. Old Grief in New Guises  9. Pathways to the Future  Suggested Reading  Useful Organizations

Praise for the second edition: 'Rebecca Abrams' book makes an admirable and long overdue contribution to the literature on bereavement and the care of the bereaved. ... The book is eminently readable, being so well illustrated by case material, including the author's own experience. Yet this is also a book of substance, resting on well-attested theory, particularly attachment theory, and rooted in common sense.' - Sue Waldron-Skinner, Crucible

Rebecca Abrams is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction. She worked as a bereavement counsellor for Cruse Bereavement Care and at the Cheltenham Ladies’ College for a number of years, and she regularly lectures and leads workshops on young people and parental bereavement. She is a tutor in creative writing at the University of Oxford and writer-in-residence at Larkmead School, Abingdon.

• Foreword to the Third Edition  Introduction  1. My Story  2. First Days, Last Rites  3. Different Deaths, Different Griefs  4. Mourning Time: The First Year  5. Mourning Time: The Second Year and After   6. Changes and Losses: The Private Kind  7. Changes and Losses: The Public Kind  8. Old Grief in New Guises  9. Pathways to the Future  Suggested Reading  Useful Organizations

Praise for the second edition: 'Rebecca Abrams' book makes an admirable and long overdue contribution to the literature on bereavement and the care of the bereaved. ... The book is eminently readable, being so well illustrated by case material, including the author's own experience. Yet this is also a book of substance, resting on well-attested theory, particularly attachment theory, and rooted in common sense.' - Sue Waldron-Skinner, Crucible

Rebecca Abrams is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction. She worked as a bereavement counsellor for Cruse Bereavement Care and at the Cheltenham Ladies’ College for a number of years, and she regularly lectures and leads workshops on young people and parental bereavement. She is a tutor in creative writing at the University of Oxford and writer-in-residence at Larkmead School, Abingdon.

• Foreword to the Third Edition  Introduction  1. My Story  2. First Days, Last Rites  3. Different Deaths, Different Griefs  4. Mourning Time: The First Year  5. Mourning Time: The Second Year and After   6. Changes and Losses: The Private Kind  7. Changes and Losses: The Public Kind  8. Old Grief in New Guises  9. Pathways to the Future  Suggested Reading  Useful Organizations

Praise for the second edition: 'Rebecca Abrams' book makes an admirable and long overdue contribution to the literature on bereavement and the care of the bereaved. ... The book is eminently readable, being so well illustrated by case material, including the author's own experience. Yet this is also a book of substance, resting on well-attested theory, particularly attachment theory, and rooted in common sense.' - Sue Waldron-Skinner, Crucible