As we reach day seven of our advent, today’s book for grief is ‘Now Is Not The Time For Flowers’ by Stacey Heale.
A powerful exploration of resilience and healing, Stacey’s story offers solace and understanding for anyone grappling with loss. A must-read for finding strength in life’s most challenging moments.
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Now is Not the Time for Flowers: What No One Tells You About Life, Love and Loss
by Stacey Heale
When Stacey Heale’s husband, Greg, was diagnosed with incurable cancer on their daughter’s first birthday, everything changed. She quickly realised how little is spoken about what the harder times in our lives really look like, leaving us lost to navigate the unknown alone.
Confronted with a new life she was not prepared for, Stacey began to untangle the brutal realities of life and death – and the fundamental differences between our expectations and reality.
Now is Not the Time for Flowers is Stacey’s unflinchingly beautiful and raw memoir that addresses the big conversations that imminent death dictates, boldly taking the reader on a journey through the full spectrum of our lives and their complexities. Told through vignettes of her own life and the death of her husband, Stacey offers a movingly honest, insightful and humorous account of modern womanhood through the lenses of love, desire, motherhood, death, grief, identity, personal growth and the challenges and questions that our lives force upon us.
Now is Not the Time for Flowers is a powerful call to arms for us to discuss the messy and unexpected truths of our nuanced lives.
Featured Amazon review…
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful and honest and necessary
“If only I’d had this book 18 years ago when I experienced life changing loss and grief. Hungry for anything that represented how it felt, I was always left wanting and almost more lonely with my feelings. Stacey’s book is beautifully written. It reads so effortlessly and is bursting with an honesty that I’ve never read before about death and grief and love. It’s a salve to all of the raw edges that forever exist when you’ve lost someone. She should be applauded….and this book should be given to everyone caring for someone as they die…so they feel less alone in the dirty shades of love and loss. 5 million stars.“
Amazon customers say…
Readers describe Now Is Not the Time for Flowers as a heartfelt and powerful memoir, celebrated for its captivating and energetic writing style. They find Stacey Heale’s honesty and humoUr refreshing, with moments that are both deeply profound and unexpectedly funny.
Praised for its authenticity and originality, the book offers a raw and realistic portrayal of love, grief, and personal growth. Many call it a brilliant and important read—one that lingers in the mind long after the final page.
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