Now Is Not the Time for Flowers

What No One Tells You About Life, Love and Loss

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Now Is Not the Time for Flowers

By: Stacey Heale

Narrated by: Stacey Heale

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'Stacey Heale ... has such a muscular take on grief, and her ideas around how we live with profound loss are truly original.' Clover Stroud

When Stacey Heale's husband, Greg, was diagnosed with incurable cancer on their daughter's first birthday, everything changed. She quickly realised how little is spoken about what the harder times in our lives really look like, leaving us lost to navigate the unknown alone.

Confronted with a new life she was not prepared for, Stacey began to untangle the brutal realities of life and death - and the fundamental differences between our expectations and reality.

Now is Not the Time for Flowers is Stacey's unflinchingly beautiful and raw memoir that addresses the big conversations that imminent death dictates, boldly taking the reader on a journey through the full spectrum of our lives and their complexities. Told through vignettes of her own life and the death of her husband, Stacey offers a movingly honest, insightful and humorous account of modern womanhood through the lenses of love, desire, motherhood, death, grief, identity, personal growth and the challenges and questions that our lives force upon us.

Now is Not the Time for Flowers is a powerful call to arms for us to discuss the messy and unexpected truths of our nuanced lives.

'To tell the explicit truths of lives is critical; to refrain from doing so keeps us lonely and isolated. Women are shamed for their emotional natures and their desire to talk so much, so we've shut down these avenues between us. ... To be honest is to show care, for ourselves and others. There is integrity in truth; it is freeing even when it's painful and hard. Sometimes it can land like a blow to the head, but its ripples are in no way as far-reaching as secrets.'©2024 Stacey Heale (P)2024 Bonnier Books UK

Grief & Loss

Personal Development

Relationships

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Marriage

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Stacey is incredibly talented and has such a way with words. I found this so hard to put down. I laughed, winced and sobbed like a baby. There’s many poignant moments, but some that stood out to me when you can hear the agony in Stacey’s voice as she recounts her memories. The respect I have for this woman is insurmountable. I can’t begin to imagine how difficult it was to live through this, but then to write about it and read it aloud for the world to hear is just another level. I’m so grateful that she’s shared these vulnerable and beautiful moments.
As someone who struggles with anxiety of death and all it encompasses, this truly was a stunningly written & raw account of the one thing we all struggle to talk about & acknowledge.