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The Red of My Blood

A Death and Life Story

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Can death bring something good to my life?

A few weeks before Christmas, Clover's sister died of breast cancer, aged 46. 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 an audiobook 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.

©2022 Clover Stroud (P)2022 Penguin Audio Grief & Loss Parenting & Families Personal Development Heartfelt

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"An absolute gutting masterpiece of a book." (Lisa Taddeo)

"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)
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I loved having Clover and The Red Of My Blood in my ear. It was comforting having someone understand. To write about how death feels and how life continues and becomes much more sharply in focus. So many moments in this memoir stirred me, made me clasp my hand over my mouth to stifle my sobs as tears fell from my eyes. And in the next moment I'm saying "yep" in agreement and nodding my head and smiling. There is truth and human connection in this book. It's much more than a memoir it's a bridge from this word to the next. Thank you Clover. ❤ Louise Grasso @daughterofthebottle

I didn't want it to end...

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Just dazzling, hugely life affirming and just incredibly comforting. I cannot recommend highly enough. Read it and it will change your life for the better.

Hugely beautiful

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I absolutely loved this book. Clover writes exquisitely and intimately and I love her descriptions (of something almost impossible to describe) and the questioning around signs which resonated so much with me. Highly recommended if you have lost someone close. Having it read by the author enhances it all even more. Thank you so much for staring your experience Clover.

Such a beautiful rendering of grief

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After loosing my mum in 2020 to cancer, I have not really been able to make sense of her death and where my life now fits. This book spoke in ways I’ve never heard anyone else speak of death. I felt it fully, I cried and smiled with complete joy at the words. Thank you so very much for allowing me time to feel something more than I did. Feels like the beginning of a journey..

Deeply and achingly felt every word.

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What a work of art!
Clover has done it again!
This book follows on from the death of her sister Nell in 2019.
The way clover writes is so emotive and brutally honest, it feels as if you are reliving the journey with her.
If anyone is looking for a read, then this is it!
A beautifully written experience of having to live after your closest human leaves without you.

Breathtakingly personal and amazingly written!

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