"In this raw memoir of loss, acclaimed writer and much-loved comedian Rob Delaney writes with absolute heartbreaking honesty about the death of his young son."
It's the story of what happens when you lose a child, and everything you discover about life in the process. Told in Rob Delaney's wonderful way, with humour (I wasn't sure how, but it works) A Heart That Works is his intimate, unflinching and, incredible exploration of loss.
The book is about Delaney’s son, Henry. His beautiful, bright, gloriously alive son Henry. He was one when he was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Incomprehensible, but an experience Delaney wants to share, feels like he must share. Delaney, his wife and two sons had just moved to London to begin filming Catastrophe, the show that was to make his name in the UK, when Henry was born. From his heartbreaking diagnosis, to the torturous treatment, and the ultimate unimaginable tragedy of his death, we see and we feel the unbearable pain.
Not for the faint-hearted, but a vital book nevertheless. A book that may help people going through the same situation, and a book that will educate us all about how to deal with loss. A book that is written with wit and maybe confrontational humour, in spite of the subject. We meet a family who use humour as medicine, who come together, bound by love, bound as a unit of care givers. I'm sure writing this book was cathartic for Delaney, and much as we all wish Henry didn't die, that any child should die before their parents without living a long happy and healthy life, I am mightily glad Delaney had the strength and courage to write this book and share his story.
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