World Book Day - Celebrating the Authors in our Grief Specialists Community
- Grief Specialists
- Mar 5
- 4 min read
Updated: Mar 7
Sending the children off to school with their favourite books for World Book Day reminded me that we can celebrate all kinds of books, including the ones written to help us with the losses in our lives. The authors can all be found on the Grief Specialists directory.
Conscious Grief by Tara Nash
This book highlights what it means to be conscious in grief.
Through the lens of personal experience and interviews, the book moves the reader forward to gather wisdom from the heartfelt and poignant reflections.
Conscious Grief reminds us of the collective experience of loss and encourages us to dig deep to dismantle the barriers around our grief and mourn our losses.
Dealing with Grief by Teresa Joy Mack
A compassionate and practical guide for anyone touched by loss, Dealing with Grief offers both immediate help and lasting support for those navigating the complex journey of grief. Whether you're recently bereaved, supporting someone who is grieving, or processing past losses, this book provides gentle guidance while challenging common misconceptions about how we "should" grieve.
Drawing from professional expertise and personal experience, Teresa Joy Mack shares invaluable insights on managing the practical demands that follow a death, understanding different types of grief, from bereavement to disenfranchised loss, supporting children through loss and change, having difficult but necessary conversations about death, and practicing essential self-care while grieving.
Written with deep empathy and practical wisdom, this book acknowledges that there is no "right way" to grieve.
Tears of a Mother: Where Love Triumphs Over Loss by Eva Nabunya
There is nothing as tragic as the loss of a baby, more so the loss of many babies. When Eva lost them, she lost pieces of herself that are hard to forget. The depth of love she felt for her angels hasn't faded. It has been documented that in the UK, 1 in 4 pregnancies end in loss, but conversations around the heart-breaking frequent experiences are few and far between.
This book offers you an insight to be able to extend a helping hand to "mothers" who have no physical children cradling their hip or suckling at their bosom; none neither in the pram...mothers with nothing to prove their claims, but an unsuccessful effort at wading through the foggy clouds of postnatal depression…
Caring for Cancer: The Real Journey by Joanne Goodwin-Worton
This book offers a real-life insight into the cancer experience from the carer’s perspective. However you read this book, whether you be a carer yourself, a family member, a friend or a medical professional, it can offer a profoundly inspiring and unique insight.
Jo was married to her best friend for 12 years before he was given the diagnosis of Stage 4 gastroesophageal cancer in 2018. He passed away in 2019 after a life-changing journey.
This is Jo’s uncensored real-life journey of caring for someone with cancer and how she coped with the emotions and expectations surrounding bereavement and grief.
It is written using real thoughts and feelings and based on factual events. It provides a raw insight into the pure emotions experienced on a day-to-day basis and how, ultimately, She used those experiences to forge her way through bereavement and onto an inspirational journey of finding hope, encouragement and a renewed lust for life.
In her journey, Jo sadly lost the love of her life but also gained a new outlook on her future by finding a way to create a ‘new normal’ despite her life changing. If you are going through a similar situation, Jo hopes this book will show you that you are not alone and that the thoughts and feelings you go through are very real. She also hopes it shows that despite the darkest of days, it is possible to remember the ones we lose with courage and a determination to turn something so difficult into a life of purpose and hope.
Is Daddy Coming Back in a Minute?: Explaining (sudden) death in words very young children can understand by Elke Thompson
This honest, sensitive and beautifully illustrated picture book is designed to help explain the concept of death to children aged 3-7. Written in Alex's own words, it is based on the real-life conversations that Elke Barber had with her then three-year-old son, Alex, after the sudden death of his father. The book provides reassurance and understanding to readers through clear and honest answers to the difficult questions that can follow the death of a loved one, and carries the invaluable message that it is okay to be sad, but it is okay to be happy, too.
The Plain Guide to Grief by Dr John Wilson
This is very different from anything on loss and grief published before. It tells you what to expect in the weeks and months ahead, in plain, simple language.
The plain and simple words of this book are important when your loss is new. In the early days after a loss, it can be hard to concentrate, making reading hard work. This book allows for that.
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