Smyth, Katharine
Summary: Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death--a calamity that claimed her favorite person--she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief. Smyth's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMYTH, KATHARINE SMYSmith, Carol
Summary: Journalist Carol Smith recounts how she faced down the crippling loss of her seven-year-old son, Christopher, through a series of profiles of people coping with their own intense challenges. Here are stories of survival and transformation, of people facing devastating situations that changed them in unexpected ways, mixed with her own account of how they helped her heal, from grief to hope. --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021
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Summary: "Conscious Grieving is a book for anyone seeking guidance and support after loss. Renowned grief therapist Claire Bidwell Smith combines her deeply personal experience of loss with her long career spent working with thousands of people to introduce a new approach to grief, one that promotes hope and even transformation. What does it mean to grieve consciously? Most of the time, when we lose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2024
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Summary: When a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020