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Author Mayer, Catherine, author.

Title Good grief : embracing life at a time of death / Catherine Mayer and Anne Mayer Bird.

Publication Info. London : HQ, 2020.
©2020

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Location Call No. Status
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  155.9 MAY    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  155.9 MAY    Check Shelf
Description 242 pages ; 24 cm
Summary Catherine Mayer and her mother, Anne Mayer Bird, lost their beloved husbands just 41 days apart on the eve of the pandemic. Entering the nation-wide lockdown as new widows, they began meeting every week (socially distanced and in masks) as Catherine cared for her mother and both women learned to navigate loss, and the startling questions and challenges that confronted them. In this book, Catherine investigates the possibility that her husband, musician Andy Gill, contracted Covid-19 when his band toured China. Her main focus, however, is not on death, but life and love. Her accounts of lives well lived is interwoven with letters Anne wrote to her husband John to tell him of the events since his death. In sharing their insights and experiences, Catherine and Anne aim to help those who have lost people or who wish to know how best to support others in such circumstances. They also celebrate love -- for John, Andy, and each other.
Contents Introduction -- Loss -- Denial -- Death -- The first letter to John -- Aftermath -- The second letter to John -- Three funerals and a memorial -- Eulogies -- The third letter to John -- Sadmin -- The fourth letter to John -- Covid -- The fifth letter to John -- Comfort -- The sixth letter to John -- Love -- A letter from Anne to herself -- In conclusion.
Subject Mayer, Catherine.
Bird, Anne Mayer.
Gill, Andy -- Death and burial.
Grief.
Widowhood.
Widows -- Biography.
COVID-19 (Disease)
COVID-19 (Disease) (OCoLC)fst01984643
Grief. (OCoLC)fst00947883
Widowhood. (OCoLC)fst01174946
Widows. (OCoLC)fst01174951
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
Added Author Bird, Anne Mayer, author.
ISBN 9780008436100 hardback
000843610X hardback
9780008436117 tpaperback
0008436118 tpaperback
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