Losing Young: How to Grieve When Your Life is Just Beginning

<b>Grief does something particular when it hits you young. This book is a moving exploration of that transformative pain, from the founder of The Grief Network.</b><br /><br />Rachel Wilson’s mother died when Rachel was in her twenties. It felt like the definitive end of childhood, a loss that rewired her perspective on life, death, relationships and who she was as a person.<br /><br />In this book, Rachel brings together other stories of bereavement with her own, encountering people who have lost parents, siblings, partners and friends at a young age. <i>Losing Young</i> draws on psychological research, interviews with titans like Julia Samuel and explorations of grief in what happens in a time of war or pandemic, when the many grieve—or struggle to—together? How do different cultures process the end of a life differently? How can the grief of losing a parent return in strange form when one thinks about having children? What do TV and fiction get disastrously, unhelpfully wrong?<br /><br />This is a personal and profound book about what happens when youth is reshaped by tragedy, trauma and loss. It’s for anyone who mourns a lost future, who is fumbling to find themselves or hopes to feel less alone.