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Standing on my Brother's Shoulders : Making Peace with Grief and Suicide, Paperback / softback Book

Standing on my Brother's Shoulders : Making Peace with Grief and Suicide Paperback / softback

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With honesty, compassion, humour and intelligence, Tara Lal has written a deeply affecting memoir.

Her courageous book tracks the nature and processes of destruction, but more than this, the crucial reconstructions that can follow.' ?

Alex Garland, screenwriter, director, producer and bestselling author of The Beach Tara's childhood was scarred by the debilitating mental illness of her father and by her mother's death from cancer when she was thirteen.

Caught up in grief and despair, Tara and her older brother Adam developed a deep, caring bond, but Adam struggled silently with growing anxiety and depression.

Four years after their mother's death, he killed himself, throwing himself from his study window at Oxford University.

Grief and insecurity threatened to engulf Tara, but eventually she found, within her brother?s diaries, her reason to live.

The story moves from London to Sydney as Tara rebuilds her life, firstly as a physiotherapist and then a firefighter.

Through her search for understanding and a powerful dialogue with her brother, she eventually escapes the past and finds a life of meaning. Trained in suicide prevention, the author hopes that her story will allow the reader to identify risk factors for mental illness, as well as strategies that reduce the effect of trauma and loss.

She also aims to give examples of techniques to improve resilience, and show how we can aid post-traumatic growth and improve happiness levels through positive psychology. 'Insightful, moving and informative' ? Jane Garvey, presenter of Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.

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