Still Here with Me: Teenagers and Children on Losing a Parent

Winner of the Young Minds Book Prize 2007

This book is a moving and thoughtful anthology of the experiences of thirty—one children and teenagers who have lost a parent.

In their own words, children and young people of a variety of ages talk openly and honestly about losing their mother or father. They describe feelings of pain, loss and anger, the struggle to cope with the embarrassed reactions and silence of others, and the difficulties involved in rebuilding their lives. They also share hap...