Description
| Product ID: | 9781786783561 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Standing on my Brother's Shoulders |
| Subtitle: | Making Peace with Grief and Suicide |
| Authors: | Author: Tara Lal |
| Page Count: | 282 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement, Coping with death & bereavement |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Speaking to anyone touched by mental illness, suicide or grief, this is a powerful memoir of suicide and post-traumatic growth. Through her exploration of resilience, forgiveness and compassion, Tara Lal hopes to change the public narrative around suicide. A suicide loss survivor tells her story. Tara Lal’s childhood was battered by her father’s mental illness and by her mother’s death when she was thirteen. Caught up in grief and despair, she developed a deep, caring bond with her charismatic and kind older brother Adam, though he struggled silently with growing anxiety and depression. Four years after their mother’s death, Adam committed suicide. Grief and insecurity threatened to engulf Tara, but eventually she found, through a dialogue with the words her brother left behind in his diaries, her reason to live. The book includes an Afterword on the possibilities for recovery and growth following a tragedy, written by Miriam Akhtar, author of Positive Psychology for Overcoming Depression. |
| Imprint Name: | Watkins Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Watkins Media Limited |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-09-08 |
