A practical handbook of coming to terms with grief, also a rare insight into a personal journey which still continues following the death not only of the author"s father but his son. Facing up to one"s unique grief it is helpful to know the landscape which you are likely to travel. This map is outlined with compassion and wisdom in the first part of the book. Surviving different types of death is specified in the second part of the book and a spiritual guide follows in the third.