{"product_id":"i-promise-it-won-t-always-clare-mackintosh-9780751584981","title":"I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This by Clare Mackintosh (Paperback)","description":"\u003cb\u003e'Truly the best and most insightful book about grief I have ever read'\u003c\/b\u003e Joanna Cannon\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Beautiful, heart-breaking and yet overwhelmingly hopeful'\u003c\/b\u003e Mike Gayle \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eGrief is universal, but it's also as unique to each of us as the person we've lost.\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eI Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This\u003c\/i\u003e is here to support you. To tell you, until you believe it, that \u003cb\u003ethings will get easier\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003cb\u003efull of compassion\u003c\/b\u003e - drawn from Clare's experiences of losing her son and her father - \u003ci\u003eI Promise it Won't Always Hurt Like This\u003c\/i\u003e is the book she needed then.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eI PROMISE IT WON'T ALWAYS HURT LIKE THIS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'That Clare has used her own devastating experience to help others who are going through something similar is a \u003cb\u003ebrave and hugely laudable\u003c\/b\u003e thing to do. A book that is both \u003cb\u003eheart-breaking in its honesty and uplifting in its compassionate approach\u003c\/b\u003e, it is \u003cb\u003ebeautifully written\u003c\/b\u003e and offers - implicit in the title - hope' Alan Titchmarsh\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Wherever you are with your grief, and whoever you're grieving for, \u003cb\u003ethis incredibly honest book was written to support you\u003c\/b\u003e... full of \u003cb\u003ecompassion and comfort\u003c\/b\u003e' Adele Parks, \u003ci\u003ePlatinum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'A book dripping with a compassion that can only truly be laid out on the page by a Survivor of the Trenches of Grief . \u003cb\u003eWe need now, perhaps more than ever, beacon-makers like Clare to help guide us through our darkness\u003c\/b\u003e' Greg Wise\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'A \u003cb\u003etrue lifeline\u003c\/b\u003e if you think no one else can possibly understand how you feel' Jill Mansell\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Written with \u003cb\u003ehonesty, realism, deep personal insight and hope\u003c\/b\u003e' Child Bereavement UK\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e'A\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003esalve for broken hearts\u003c\/b\u003e. Readers who've been touched by loss will find \u003cb\u003ecomfort\u003c\/b\u003e in these pages.' \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55195878752599,"sku":"9780751584981","price":17.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/9780751584981.jpg?v=1790688335","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/i-promise-it-won-t-always-clare-mackintosh-9780751584981","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}