978 1 917362 06 1 | April 2025
Paperback | 160 pp | 216 x 135 mm
 
'This collection, with its rightly encouraging title, has brought comfort to many facing bereavement. It recognises the pain of loss, but brings hope when we are ready for it. Few could fail to find help here.’
– Dame Ciceley Saunders
 
Grief is an unknown, frightening landscape into which the bereaved are flung. Before it happens, very few people have any idea of its intensity and the way it pervades the whole of life. In their despair, many grieving people turn for guidance and insight to the great prose writers and poets who have pondered on death and the meaning of life.
 
All in the End is Harvest responds to this searching. The expertise of the whole Cruse Bereavement Support organisation has been tapped to provide extracts of prose and poetry known to have been of real help to bereaved people. Many of Cruse’s voluntary counsellors and workers have sent contributions, as have members from their branches throughout the United Kingdom and individual members elsewhere. Agnes Whitaker has edited them, added her own contributions and written her personal comments to bring the extracts close to the experience of every grieving person.
 
This is not a book to be read all at once. It is a perfect bedside book, to be dipped into when sleep does not come, when concentration is poor and when there is an overwhelming sense of loss. It will also be of use as a resource for counsellors and all those who work alongside bereaved people.