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'On Valentine’s Day, after a night of red wine and pasta and planning for their future, Natasha Sholl and her partner Rob went to bed. A few hours later, at the age of 27, his heart stopped.
'Found, Wanting tells the story of Natasha’s attempt to rebuild her life in the wake of Rob’s sudden death, stumbling through the grief landscape and colliding with the cultural assumptions about the ‘right way’ to grieve.
'It is a memoir about falling in love in the aftermath of loss, and what it means to build a life in the space that death leaves.
'Furious and passionate, bracingly honest and beautiful, Found, Wanting is above all, a memoir about living and making sense of the multitude of lives within us.'
Source : publisher's blurb
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Works about this Work
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Writing People You Know
2023
single work
column
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , June 2023; -
The Snares of Grief : Pathways, Not Closure
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 441 2022; (p. 53)
— Review of Found, Wanting 2022 single work autobiography'We all seem to be thinking about grief lately. As Covid keeps many of us away from loved ones and people who are dying or have just expired, how we process death has received a renewed focus. The number of memoirs and guides and stories about grief and loss that have been published in the past two years – over two hundred – is staggering. It is a challenge to write about grief. Every society on earth has its own forms and rituals around grieving, its own texts on what grieving is like. Trying to find something new or original to say is daunting. What we are left with are our own words, our own terrible experiences to put down upon the page.'(Introduction)
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Living with Grief
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26 February 2022; (p. 22)
— Review of Found, Wanting 2022 single work autobiography -
[Review] Found, Wanting
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , February 2022;
— Review of Found, Wanting 2022 single work autobiography
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[Review] Found, Wanting
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , February 2022;
— Review of Found, Wanting 2022 single work autobiography -
Living with Grief
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26 February 2022; (p. 22)
— Review of Found, Wanting 2022 single work autobiography -
The Snares of Grief : Pathways, Not Closure
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 441 2022; (p. 53)
— Review of Found, Wanting 2022 single work autobiography'We all seem to be thinking about grief lately. As Covid keeps many of us away from loved ones and people who are dying or have just expired, how we process death has received a renewed focus. The number of memoirs and guides and stories about grief and loss that have been published in the past two years – over two hundred – is staggering. It is a challenge to write about grief. Every society on earth has its own forms and rituals around grieving, its own texts on what grieving is like. Trying to find something new or original to say is daunting. What we are left with are our own words, our own terrible experiences to put down upon the page.'(Introduction)
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Writing People You Know
2023
single work
column
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , June 2023;
Awards
- 2023 longlisted APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Non Fiction Book designed by Alissa Dinallo.
