Why Not Me? by Barbara Want
This haunting memoir of grief recounts the death from cancer of Nick Clarke, much-loved BBC radio presenter of 'The World at One' - and the aftermath - from his widow Barbara's point of view. With painful honesty, Barbara lays open her ambivalent feelings about the illness as it progressed, and her instinctive fear that this would be the end. As he got sicker, her fear grew, until he died an unfeasibly short time after his diagnosis. Barbara chronicles in unflinching prose her life after his death. A howl of anguish and anger, she describes how many of her friends and colleagues don't call, and don't offer support - how alone she is, and how she struggles to explain the unexplainable to her young twin sons. She has a breakdown, and a short-lived relationship (met with condemnation from some of her friends) but knows the process of dealing with her grief is barely beginning. A ruthlessly honest dissection of a widow's pain, this book is also a love story - an uncomfortably raw, utterly compelling memoir which ends without resolution; its author still fighting to come to terms with the hand life has dealt her.
'when it comes to exposing the painful truth about her own experience of living with the decline of the man she adores, Barbara Want is first-rate' -- Kathryn Hughes MAIL ON SUNDAY 'an agitated warning about the precariousness of life... The book is a powerful mix of anguished recognition and denial.' -- Kate Kellaway THE OBSERVER 'compelling... courageous' -- Bee Wilson THE SUNDAY TIMES 'this honest and angry memoir... by turns, shines with the light of her love for Clarke and echoes with the depth of her loss... it will be liberating for those who have been similarly bereaved to read Want's raw exposure of every emotion she felt' -- Helen Brown DAILY TELEGRAPH
Barbara Want is a writer and broadcaster. She was a BBC TV producer before her twin sons were born in 2002. They live in London. She is also the author of Baby Secrets.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780297851875 |
| ISBN 10 | 029785187X |
| Title | Why Not Me? |
| Author | Barbara Want |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2010-03-11 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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