The book offers a deeply personal exploration of the author's life, showcasing her willingness to share raw truths that resonate with women. Through her candid storytelling, she aims to empower and liberate others, making it a transformative read. Esteemed authors like Rachel Joyce and Elizabeth Gilbert praise its impact, highlighting its emotional depth and the connection it fosters among women. The narrative is described as gripping, leaving readers both captivated and reflective.
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'MUST READ ... A remarkable acount of love and grief.' - DAILY MAIL 'She is a vigorous and fearless writer, grabbing us by the throat to describe life's horrors and her responses to them, filling her pages with the magnetic force of her own life as wife, lover and mother of five which somehow has to go on.' SPECTATOR 'With brutal, beautiful honesty, Clover articulates how bereavement shocks and dislocates - and in all the pain, there's SO much life.' MARIAN KEYES ............................................... 'Can death bring something good to my life?' A few weeks before Christmas, Clover's sister died of breast cancer, aged forty-six. Just days before, she had been given years to live. Her sudden death split Clover's life apart. The Red of My Blood charts Clover's fearless passage through the first year after her sister's death. It is a book about what life feels like when death interrupts it, and about bearing the unbearable and describing an experience that seems beyond words. Lyrical, hopeful, it is also about the magical way in which death and life exist so vividly beside one another, and the wonder of being human. 'A beautiful addition to the literature of loss. It will serve as a lit match, to be passed from one person to the next in the darkest moments.' THE SUNDAY TIMES
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE. A powerful and beautifully written memoir from journalist Clover Stroud, about grief, motherhood, depression and the healing power of nature and horses.
Clovers idyllische Kindheit in Südengland ist jäh zu Ende, als ihre Mutter durch einen tragischen Reitunfall zum Pflegefall wird: Mit sechzehn verliert sie allen Halt, die Wärme ihres Zuhauses und ihre wichtigste Ansprechpartnerin, denn die einst blühende, sprachgewandte, warmherzige Charlotte wird nur noch von Apparaten am Leben gehalten. Die folgenden zwei Jahrzehnte werden für Clover zu einem wilden Ritt durch dramatische Höhen und Tiefen, eine atemlose Jagd nach dem Leben. Erst als sie selbst Mutter wird, kommt sie zur Ruhe - wenn auch ganz anders, als sie es sich gedacht hatte... Ein unglaubliches Leben, eine umwerfende Frau und ein sagenhaftes, inspirierendes Buch.