Wife After Death

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Despite the fact that I have always written, I was unable to commit a single coherent line to paper in the year following His death.


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In April , on the advice of a counsellor, I started writing a blog — Wife After Death — as a way of releasing some of the heartbreak, and in the hope that I might find kindred spirits out in the ether. The blog went on to win a national award, as well as bringing a raft of inspiring and supportive individuals into my life, many of whom were going through the same shared hell of losing a spouse.

I am nearly finished your book Lucie. I have not lost a husband, but my daughter died aged 3 from leukaemia, after an agonising 18 months of treatment, a failed bone marrow transplant, and no real hope all along. This was in Brother was killed in in an accident and mum died in between them both. Like a bad movie script. My point is, I can relate to the raw and agonising grief you describe. Thank you for this book. Bad movie script indeed. Your story is shocking.

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Thank you for sharing it. Sending a hug to you. I look forward to finishing the book. So sorry for your loss, but really gratified that the book is helping somewhat — it helps me to know there are others out there doing the same things! Thanks so much for rreading and contacting. I wish you much love and strength for the future. There were times through your book that I thought someone had stolen my thoughts. I related to so many things and remembered the feelings of absolute despair and the immense physical pain that grief gave me that no one really seemed to understand.


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    • I know your book will help many people going through the same situation it is such an accurate, harsh insight into grief. Sending you love, Danni. Wishing you a good Xmas and thanks for reading and reaching out.

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    I just wish I had found your book sooner. Widowhood also left me with the strong sense of isolation from the rest of my peers who were incapable of understanding either my suffering or those occasional flashes of ghoulish humour and extreme irony that only the untimely-bereaved can know. The honesty, anger and humour with which you relate your experiences and portray our isolation, our bitterness and the uphill struggle to cope and survive after the death of our lovers and soulmates took my breath away.

    Your success with the book is well-deserved, Lucie, and, as a novelist myself, I would like to encourage you to carry on with your writing. I thoroughly enjoyed the power and strength of your language and imagery — even the bits that made for uncomfortable reading. I will leave you a review under my pseudonym on Amazon. Hey there Karen, Lovely to hear from you and I thank you for your wonderful, supportive words.

    It is so gratifying to receive feedback like this, especially from another writer. Mark approached everything, even the most grotesque of nappies, with a playful, sidelong glance.

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    How would he have approached the Bieber milestone? Sandberg emailed me personally afterwards. Getting through ten minutes can be difficult enough, never mind ten months. New relationships after widowhood are charged and complex things. Those who enter into them should not have to adhere to any timeline for grieving, especially ones laid out by anonymous keyboard commentators who have nothing better to do.

    Last weekend, I was honoured to be invited to speak at the AGM of WAY Widowed and Young — a wonderful charity that supports anyone under the age of 50 who has lost a spouse or partner. The passage I read was about disposal of ashes, coffin choices and thrifty funeral directors named Dennis. I worried that they might not see the funny side.

    Wife After Death - performed February 2013

    In fact, for a bunch of bereaveds, we spent an indecent amount of time belly-laughing. I had been asked to consider how writing helped me after losing Mark. Writing allowed friends and family to see how I was doing, without them having to bring out the platitudes.


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    Writing the blog turned into writing the book, which turned into a sort of therapy all of its own. Visit us here for further information.

    I mentioned this to the course leader. She was such a lovely woman, what with her cupcakes and her clip-art, that I felt bad afterwards. I have tried writing my way through it.

    Writer. Researcher. Tutor. PhD.

    Drinking my way through it. Fucking my way through it. Drugging my way through it prescription of course. Talking my way through it. Laughing, crying, bluffing my way through it. Buying my way through it net result — cupboard full of fabulous shoes!