The book shows what
happened and how we experienced it. Writing the book has
been a more painful experience than I anticipated, and I
hope it will help my family as well as others who read it.
Although I am the author, every member of the family has
contibuted. Their written accounts show how differently
people grieve. Some of my family have come to terms with
this most painful loss better than others. As far as I can see,
this is one of the few books that allows male and female
siblings to express in their own words how the death of a
sibling affected them. Any books I have read on the death of
a child use parents’ accounts of how their surviving children
subsequently felt. This book will show the feelings of siblings
in their teens and early twenties, and later on as mature
adults. Bill was only seventeen when Cathal died, Deirdre was
nineteen, Breda was twenty-one, and Frances twenty-two.
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