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Ratcliffe's forthcoming book is Loss, A Love Story: Imagined Histories and Brief Encounters.
At the Guardian she tagged five books about grief that can help provide comfort and perspective, including:
Grief is the Thing With Feathers by Max PorterRead about another entry on the list.
The premise of this poetic novella – giant crow moves in with bereaved family after mother dies – sounds unlikely. But through this brilliant semi-allegory, Porter captures how loss can upend a family, seemingly stretching space and logic in surreal ways. Told through voices of two boys, their father, and a shapeshifting crow, this is a funny, frightening and loving experiment in magical thinking. As an adult who was bereaved as a child, I approached this tale with some trepidation – fearing it might cut too close. In fact, it provided a kind of fierce comfort – holding pain up to the light, and aslant.
--Marshal Zeringue