I read about this extraordinarily beautiful, touching, poignant, funny, sad, life-affirming, illuminating, comforting and grief-understanding collection of poems by Gina Claye http://www.writersservices.com/wbs/books/ginaclaye.htm on dovegreyreader’s blog here, some time ago http://dovegreyreader.typepad.com/dovegreyreader_scribbles/2008/04/dont-let-them-t.html but this book will never age.

I ordered myself a couple of copies so that I could give one to a grieving friend ... and I know we all talk about essential books, but this one is quintessential. Buy it for yourself, for those you love, for those you don’t know well, for anyone who’s grieving who you’d like to tell that they’re not alone. Gina Claye's own traumatic experiences inform the poems: they come from straight from her heart.

I also wrote about it here: http://www.angela-young.co.uk/grieving/dont-let-them-tell-you-how-to-grieve/