Your person died, and nobody explained how you are supposed to keep living.

The casseroles stop. The messages thin out. Everyone else’s life resumes on schedule, and you are left in the long quiet stretch that begins once the world has decided you should be doing better by now.

This book is about that stretch. Not the stages, not the first fortnight, but the rebuilding: who you become afterwards, how to carry someone with you rather than get over them, and what to do with the days that have no shape left in them. Healing is not the point at which it stops hurting. It is the point at which the hurt stops being the only thing you are.

After the Loss is Book Six of The Grief You Don’t Talk About.

For readers who have lost someone they love and are trying to work out how to build a life around the gap.