Our reading list for bereaved parents and children

Processing grief can be a significant challenge to those directly experiencing loss and those around them. While no single text can offer a simple answer, we reached out to our followers and the families we have supported. Here is a list of the books many of them have found helpful.

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Books for Adults

Author(s)

Book Title
Still A Mum: A story of modern grief and life after loss	Meagan Donaldson
The Baby Loss Guide: Practical and compassionate support with a day-by-day resource to navigate the path of grief	Zoe Clark-Coates
A Grief Observed	CS Lewis
Coping With Grief	Mal & Dianne McKissock
They Were Still Born: Personal Stories about Stillbirth	Janel C. Atlas
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman	Clarissa Pinkola Estes
All I Know: A memoir of love, loss and life	Mary Coustas
Changed Living Stillbirth	Liza Jankowski
Rules Not Apply	Levy, Ariel
Figment My Imagination	McCracken, Elizabeth
Inside Out	Moore, Demi
Invisible Earthquake	Ndlovu, Malika
Seventeen Brushes	O’Farrell, Maggie
Chronology Water	Yuknavitch, Lidia
Mackenzies Mission	Casella, Rachael
Seaside Towns	Jolly, Alice
Any Ordinary Day	Sales, Leigh
Your Own Kind of Girl	Bowditch, Clare
They Were Still Born	Atlas, Janel C.
Linger On Hot Coals	Cole Stephanie Paige & Bayly, Catherine
Three Minus One	Hanish, Sean & Warner, Brooke
Silent Love	Ryan, Adrienne
Beyond Tears	Mitchel, Ellen
Miracle Beginnings	Bosustow, Raquel
Our Babies Have Died	Sands
Pregnancy Loss Surviving Miscarriage	Taylor, Zoe
Worse Things Happen at Sea	McInnes, Willam and Watts, Sarah
Reality Slap	Harris, Ruff
Bearing Unbearable	Cacciatore, Joanne
Unspeakable Loss	Zenoff, Nisha
Year of Magical Thinking	Didion, Joan
Young Widows Book	Lloyd, Virginia
Getting Back Life	Kosminsky, Phil
How to Go On Living	Therese Rando Bantam
Forever Loved Guide	Maria Carr and Aisling Pont
Widows Story	Joyce Carol Oates
Nothing Was The Same	Kay Redfield Jamison
No Time For Goodbyes	Janice Harris Lord
My Mother My Father	Susan Wyndham
When Things Happen	Harold Kushner
Heart of Grief	Thomas Attig
Now That The Funeral Is Over	Doris Zagdanski
Parents Guide Raising Grieving Children	Phyllis Silverman et al
Grieving Teenagers	Helen Fitzgerald
Orphaned Adult	Alexander Levy
Letting Person You Used to Be	Lama Surya Das
Going Pieces	Mark Epstein
Bereaved Children	Earl Grollman
Talking About Death	Earl Grollman
Good Mourning	Sally Douglas and Imogen Carn
The Secret Language	Laura Lynne Jackson
Bearing Unbearable	Joanne Cacciatore, PhD
Finding Meaning	David Kessler
Life is Tough	Briony Benjamin
Books for Children
The Grief Wave	Tracey Moroney
Shelter Sadness	Anne Booth
Waiting Wolf	Sandra Dieckmann
Beginnings Endings	Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen
Something Happened	Cathy Blanford
We Had An Angel Instead	Pat Schwiebert

Last modified: 26/3/24