A Manual for Heartache: Cathy Rentzenbrink - Softcover

Rentzenbrink, Cathy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509824464 ISBN 13: 9781509824465

Publisher: Picador, 2017

Synopsis

'I devoured A Manual for Heartache in one sitting . . . a kind, honest and wise book about how to make a friend of sadness.' - Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.

When Cathy Rentzenbrink was still a teenager, her happy family was torn apart by an unthinkable tragedy. In A Manual for Heartache she describes how she learnt to live with grief and loss and find joy in the world again. She explores how to cope with life at its most difficult and overwhelming and how we can emerge from suffering forever changed, but filled with hope.

This is a moving, warm and uplifting book that offers solidarity and comfort to anyone going through a painful time, whatever it might be. It's a book that will help to soothe an aching heart and assure its readers that they're not alone.

About this title

About the Author

Cathy Rentzenbrink is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Last Act of Love, How to Feel Better (A Manual for Heartache), Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books, Write It All Down and Everyone Is Still Alive. It took her twenty years to wrestle her own life story on the page and she loves to use what she has learnt about the profound nature of writing the self in the service of others. Cathy has taught for Arvon, Curtis Brown Creative, at Falmouth University and at festivals and in prisons, and welcomes anyone, no matter what their experience, education, background or story. She believes that everyone’s life would be improved by picking up a pen and is at her happiest when encouraging her students to have the courage to delve into themselves and see the magic that will start to happen on the page.

From the Back Cover

‘I devoured A Manual for Heartache in one sitting . . . a kind, honest and wise book about how to make a friend of sadness’
Rachel Joyce


Heartache is human – over the course of our lives, we all encounter sadness and loss. But what do we say when the worst has happened to someone we love, and how do we cope when it happens to us?

This book is a survival guide for hard times. It will shine a chink of light into a dark day and remind you that you’re not alone.

‘Big-hearted, moving, deeply sympathetic and gently honest, a goldmine of wisdom and insight’
Daily Express

‘A lovely, simple book about how to cope with life’s bumps and shocks and sadnesses . . . thoroughly human’
Matt Haig, Observer

‘When my life turned upside down, this is the book I wish I could have read’
Decca Aitkenhead

Edition details

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509824464
• ISBN 13: 9781509824465
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176