The Porcelain Heart: A Mother's Memoir of Unexpected Loss cover art

The Porcelain Heart: A Mother's Memoir of Unexpected Loss

Listen with a free trial

Pre-order: Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Unlimited access to our all-you-can-listen catalogue of 15K+ audiobooks and podcasts
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

The Porcelain Heart: A Mother's Memoir of Unexpected Loss

By: Marcy Kelly
Narrated by: Rebecca Stern
Pre-order: Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Pre-order Now for £15.59

Pre-order Now for £15.59

Season's Savings | £0.99/mo for 3 months

£5.99/mo after 3 months - terms apply. Cancel monthly
Fans of Joan Didions The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights will find inspiration in this mothers memoir about the year following her sons sudden death.When Marcy learns her beloved forty-five-year-old son, Michael, has died, she refuses to believe it. He was her only child. Later, she blames herself because she didnt recognize the signs of his illness. She has disturbing dreams about not saving him and spirals through the various stages of grief as she waits months for the coroner to render a cause. But the fifth and final stage of grief, Marcy rejects. In her mind, if she accepts Michaels death, he wont ever return. The Porcelain Heart chronicles her raw emotional journey the year following Michaels death. Marcy endures all the firsts without himthe holidays, his birthday. She joins grief groups, remembers frightening and fun times together, questions whether she was a good mother, and tries to distract herself with travel. She creates a golf scholarship in his name and commissions a stone people and pet fountain to be built on the path where he used to hike. Her journey culminates when she takes his ashes to his favorite place, a lake in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and finally begins moving toward acceptance.©2026 Marcy Kelly (P)2026 Marcy Kelly
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
No reviews yet