It tells the very individual story of 12 people’s individual experience of bereavement when facing the death of an adult sibling. This book is a collection of short contributions discussing sibling loss. Sometimes those who have lost a sibling can feel like forgotten mourners.

Sisters and Brothers: Stories about the death of a sibling, by Julie Bentley and Simon Anthony Blake.

She writes from the perspective of a therapist as well as someone who lost her partner in a tragic accident. In this book Megan Devine argues that we need to move away from the idea that grief can be solved or cured and that we need to learn how to build a life alongside grief instead.

It’s OK that you’re not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand, by Megan Devine.

It outlines strategies based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy which are clinically proven and can help you cope with grief and bereavement.

An Introduction to Coping with Grief, by Sue MorrisĪ self-help book which includes questions and exercises to help manage your grief and track your progress.

The Year of Magical Thinking is Didion’s ‘attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness … about marriage and children and memory … about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself’. The night before New Year’s Eve Joan Didion and her husband and partner of 40 years were just sitting down to dinner when John suffered a massive and fatal coronary. This is another grief ‘classic’, and for a reason.

The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion.

All I knew was that my kids needed me, and if I was going to help them, I was going to have to ask for help too… I was about to find out that the tools I had learned as a footballer were the last thing my children needed from their dad when tragedy struck.’ ‘I didn’t even know how to work the washing-machine. In this book shares openly and honestly the hard journey he’s been on along with his three children, and the support and advice that’s getting them through. When Rio Ferdinand spoke out about his grief following the death of his wife from cancer in 2015 it helped open up a national debate about grieving, and encouraged other men to talk about their feelings of loss.

Thinking Out Loud: Love, Grief and Being Mum and Dad, by Rio Ferdinand.

Her insights reveal how when grief is approached in the right way, healing can follow. Sections cover death of a parent, partner, sibling, child and facing your own death. Psychologist Julia Samuel tells the stories of those who have experienced great grief and survived.

Grief Works: Stories of life, death and surviving, by Julia Samuel.

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