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Cosmo Landesman has no time for feel-good-grief memoirs

The heartbroken father endlessly relives his son’s suicide, raking over every moment of Jack’s battle with depression and drug addiction

4 February 2023

9:00 AM

4 February 2023

9:00 AM

You Are Not Alone Cariad Lloyd

Bloomsbury, pp.304, 18.99

Jack and Me: How NOT to Live After Loss Cosmo Landesman

Eyewear Publishing, pp.250, 20

‘This is a book about how you don’t get over it,’ You Are Not Alone begins. If you’re new to bereavement, looking for a way through the death of a loved one, perhaps this doesn’t scream of optimism. But Cariad Lloyd’s warmth, generosity and gentle pragmatism makes her book one of the most reassuring I have read.

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