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After You Letters of Love, and Loss, to a Husband and Father by Natascha McElhone


After You Letters of Love, and Loss, to a Husband and Father

Natascha McElhone

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After You Letters of Love, and Loss, to a Husband and Father by Natascha McElhone
Natascha McElhone, star of The Truman Show and Californication , was filming in LA, seven months pregnant with her third child with her other two young children playing in the gym across the road when she got a call from a friend that would change her life forever. Her husband, Martin, the love of her life and father to her delightful children and an apparently healthy man in his early 40s had died suddenly of a heart attack. In the weeks and months that followed the devastating shock Natascha continued to write her diary and letters to Martin (something she had always done as, due to her work, she was used to being far from home). They were letters of love, letters about their gorgeous boys, letters about the birth of the new baby and diary entries detailing the mundane and heartbreaking details of her new life: house repairs and terrifying family finances; trying to keep the children's lives as normal as possible in the face of such abnormal new circumstances. The result is a powerful, honest and moving story of a magical love affair and all-consuming grief, of being a mother alone and trying to live for the future.

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A brave and extraordinary testament of bereavement, as honest as any I have ever read Observer Written with remarkable wisdom, grace and courage, it is a portrait of a woman fighting to reconcile death with life, and managing to do exactly that. How proud her husband would have been Mail on Sunday McElhone writes with great honesty and without self pity ... A masterclass in graceful endurance Sunday Times A remarkable story of emotional survival, beautifully told Daily Mail


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Natascha McElhone was born in London in 1971. She has starred in a wide range of TV, film and theatre including The Truman Show and Californication. She lives in London with her three boys.
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Format
 Hardback
128 pages

Author
Natascha McElhone

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Publisher
Viking an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd

Publication date
1st July 2010


ISBN
9780670919093
 

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