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A review by pankajmehra
Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving by Julia Samuel
2.0
Julia Samuel may have excellent credentials (including the blurb that she is/was close to The Firm - Royal Family!) and over 25 years of experience as a grief counsellor but this book left me cold.
I have lost several very dear souls - the sudden death of my parents, especially my mother who was brutally murdered; close friends as a result of drowning, car and other accidents when I was growing up and between the ages of 12 and 20; clients whom I served as a palliative care volunteer and so on. Each "case" is different and while Ms. Samuel can pull together case histories, juxtapose these or pull together "commonalities" to formulate strategies for helping individuals cope with grief, there is no silver bullet for this purpose. It is a poorly written book, not in terms of the knowledge it wishes to impart, but in how it is laid out.
Good luck to those who benefited from it and found solace. It is truly such an individualistic experience. However, I was unable to finish it.
I have lost several very dear souls - the sudden death of my parents, especially my mother who was brutally murdered; close friends as a result of drowning, car and other accidents when I was growing up and between the ages of 12 and 20; clients whom I served as a palliative care volunteer and so on. Each "case" is different and while Ms. Samuel can pull together case histories, juxtapose these or pull together "commonalities" to formulate strategies for helping individuals cope with grief, there is no silver bullet for this purpose. It is a poorly written book, not in terms of the knowledge it wishes to impart, but in how it is laid out.
Good luck to those who benefited from it and found solace. It is truly such an individualistic experience. However, I was unable to finish it.