Grief is universal, but it’s also as unique to each of us as the person we’ve lost. It can be overwhelming, exhausting, lonely, unreasonable, there when we least expect it and seemingly never-ending. Wherever you are with your grief and whoever you’re grieving for, I Promise It Won’t Always Hurt Like This is here to support you. To tell you, until you believe it, that things will get easier.

When bestselling writer Clare Mackintosh lost her five-week-old son, she searched for help in books. All of them wanted to tell her what she should be feeling and when she should be feeling it, but the truth – as she soon found out – is that there are no neat, labelled stages for grief, or crash grief-diets to relieve us of our pain. What we need when we’re grieving is time and understanding. With 18 short assurances that are full of compassion – drawn from Clare’s experiences of losing her son and her father – I Promise it Won’t Always Hurt Like This is the book she needed then.

My Thoughts:

This is different to Clare’s other books but I am so glad she has written it. Everyone deals with grief in different ways and I have seen it first hand. But when the author writing this book has been through grief then you know what you are reading is straight from the heart, Clare’s way of helping others with how to deal with grief. There are 18 different assurances in this book to console and help the reader, and even though I have never read anything like this before I am glad I have because I have lost people in the past and I feel as though I never had any help with the grieving process. I am so glad Clare has written this book, and I really hope it helps lots of people in the world. I am glad she has written it but I am very sorry for her loss, her words have really touched me.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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