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The red of my blood : a death and life story / Clover Stroud.
By: Stroud, Clover.
Publisher: Penguin Books, 2023Description: 288 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781804990957 (pbk.) :; 1804990957 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Stroud, Clover -- Family | Cancer -- Patients -- Great Britain | Bereavement | Sisters | Health and Fitness | Health and Wellbeing | Memoirs | Social services & welfare, criminology | Coping with death & bereavementDDC classification: 362.1969940092 Summary: 'Can death bring something good to my life?' A few weeks before Christmas, Clover's sister died of breast cancer, aged 46. Just days before, she had been given years to live. Her sudden death split Clover's life apart. 'The Red of My Blood' charts Clover's fearless passage through the fi rst year after her sister's death. It is a book about what life feels like when death interrupts it, and about bearing the unbearable and describing an experience that seems beyond words. Lyrical, hopeful, it is also about the magical way in which death and life exist so vividly beside one another, and the wonder of being human.| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | St Helens Library Adult Non-Fiction | 362.196 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 38055400021175 |
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'Can death bring something good to my life?' A few weeks before Christmas, Clover's sister died of breast cancer, aged 46. Just days before, she had been given years to live. Her sudden death split Clover's life apart. 'The Red of My Blood' charts Clover's fearless passage through the fi rst year after her sister's death. It is a book about what life feels like when death interrupts it, and about bearing the unbearable and describing an experience that seems beyond words. Lyrical, hopeful, it is also about the magical way in which death and life exist so vividly beside one another, and the wonder of being human.