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The Red of my Blood
The Red of my Blood: A Death and Life Story | Clover Stroud
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'An absolute gutting masterpiece of a book.' LISA TADDEO, author of THREE WOMEN 'Clover Stroud is a fearless explorer of the human heart, and a writer of incomparable grace and passion. She also understands more about loss, sorrow, grief, and resilience than most people will ever have to learn.' ELIZABETH GILBERT, author of EAT, PRAY, LOVE 'So beautiful, compelling and raw. Clover records the shifting, glittering rainbow of her experience of love and death with extraordinary honesty and precision.' GAVANNDRA HODGE, author of THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE 'The most beautiful, enduring, indelible, transcendent love letter from a sister to a sister that I will ever read' JULIET NICOLSON, author of FROSTQUAKE ............................................................................................................................... '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.
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Michellesibs
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Clover's sister was given at least five, probably ten years to live after battling breast cancer. Ten days later, she was dead.
This is Clover's experience of the first year after her sisters death.
Sibling grief doesn't get a lot of airplay, Clover sharing her experience of the loss of her sister means a great deal.
Thank you Clover for sharing your broken heart, memories and raw emotion with us.

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Curvybookgirl
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I did enjoy this book if that‘s the right word however it is a tough read if you‘ve lost a close family member