AS SEEN ON LORRAINE AND FEATURED IN THE TIMES 'Stacey Heale ... has
such a muscular take on grief, and her ideas around how we live with
profound loss are truly original.' Clover Stroud When Stacey Heale's
husband, Greg, was diagnosed with incurable cancer on their daughter's
first birthday, everything changed. She quickly realised how little is
spoken about what the harder times in our lives really look like,
leaving us lost to navigate the unknown alone. Confronted with a new
life she was not prepared for, Stacey began to untangle the brutal
realities of life and death - and the fundamental differences between
our expectations and reality. Now is Not the Time for Flowers is
Stacey's unflinchingly beautiful and raw memoir that addresses the big
conversations that imminent death dictates, boldly taking the reader
on a journey through the full spectrum of our lives and their
complexities. Told through vignettes of her own life and the death of
her husband, Stacey offers a movingly honest, insightful and humorous
account of modern womanhood through the lenses of love, desire,
motherhood, death, grief, identity, personal growth and the challenges
and questions that our lives force upon us. Now is Not the Time for
Flowers is a powerful call to arms for us to discuss the messy and
unexpected truths of our nuanced lives. 'To tell the explicit truths
of lives is critical; to refrain from doing so keeps us lonely and
isolated. Women are shamed for their emotional natures and their
desire to talk so much, so we've shut down these avenues between us.
... To be honest is to show care, for ourselves and others. There is
integrity in truth; it is freeing even when it's painful and hard.
Sometimes it can land like a blow to the head, but its ripples are in
no way as far-reaching as secrets.'
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9781785120275
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2024
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Engelsk
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