# I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This by Clare Mackintosh (Paperback)

**'Truly the best and most insightful book about grief I have ever read'** Joanna Cannon  
  
**'Beautiful, heart-breaking and yet overwhelmingly hopeful'** Mike Gayle  
  
**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.  
  
**PRAISE FOR _I PROMISE IT WON'T ALWAYS HURT LIKE THIS_**  
  
'That Clare has used her own devastating experience to help others who are going through something similar is a **brave and hugely laudable** thing to do. A book that is both **heart-breaking in its honesty and uplifting in its compassionate approach**, it is **beautifully written** and offers - implicit in the title - hope' Alan Titchmarsh  
  
'Wherever you are with your grief, and whoever you're grieving for, **this incredibly honest book was written to support you**... full of **compassion and comfort**' Adele Parks, _Platinum_  
  
'A book dripping with a compassion that can only truly be laid out on the page by a Survivor of the Trenches of Grief . **We need now, perhaps more than ever, beacon-makers like Clare to help guide us through our darkness**' Greg Wise  
  
'A **true lifeline** if you think no one else can possibly understand how you feel' Jill Mansell  
  
'Written with **honesty, realism, deep personal insight and hope**' Child Bereavement UK  
  
_'A_ **salve for broken hearts**. Readers who've been touched by loss will find **comfort** in these pages.' _Publishers Weekly_

## Details

- **Price:** 17.49 GBP
- **Vendor:** Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- **Type:** Self Help
- **Tags:** All Books, Self Help

## Variants

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> Updated: 2026-09-29