Notes for the Everlost, Kate Inglis
Notes for the Everlost, Kate Inglis
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Notes for the Everlost
A Field Guide to Grief

Author: Kate Inglis

Series: Shambhala

Narrator: Kate Inglis

Unabridged: 7 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/18/2018

Synopsis

Part memoir, part handbook for the heartbroken, this powerful, unsparing account of losing a premature baby will speak to all who have been bereaved and are grieving, and offers inspiration on moving forward, gently integrating the loss into life.

Inglis's story is a springboard that can help other bereaved parents--and anyone who has experienced wrenching loss--reflect on emotional survival in the first year; dealing with family, friends, and bystanders post-loss; the unique survivors' guilt, feelings of failure, and isolation of bereavement; and the fortitude of like-minded community and small kindnesses. Inglis's unique voice--at once brash, irreverent, and achingly beautiful--creates a nuanced picture of the landscape of grief, encompassing the trauma, the waves of disbelief and emptiness, the moments of unexpected affinity and lightness, and the compassion that grows from our most intense chapters of the human experience.

About The Author

KATE INGLIS is an author and photographer living on the South Shore of Nova Scotia. She is the author of numerous YA and children's books, including If I Were a Zombie, Flight of the Griffons, and The Dread Crew, which was nominated for Hackmatack Children's Choice and Red Cedar Awards.Kate's writing through the birth of her twins, subsequent loss, and beyond was internationally recognized and widely shared. In 2008, she founded Glow in the Woods, a groundbreaking online community for bereaved parents that attracted over five million readers within its first five years. She served as its editor until 2012, and she still writes as a contributor. For six years she headlined the annual Walk to Remember in Edmonton, Alberta, one of the largest and most preeminent memorial events for bereaved parents in Canada. Each year, she delivered a keynote to more than 1,000 parents and family members who had experienced loss. In 2012, she gave a talk at TEDx Halifax called "Parallelism," in which she explored of the similarities between the often solitary journeys of creative work and healing from grief.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Beth on March 11, 2018

Notes for the Everlost: A Field Guide to Grief is what you will want to read if you have lost a child, if you know someone who has lost a child, or . . . if you’re a human being. (I asked a friend of mine to read it. She is not a mother whose child has died, but she reported that she could not put t......more

Goodreads review by Kerri Anne on September 04, 2018

I was lucky enough to be one of the early readers for this incredibly moving memoir-of-sorts, written by a true talent and wonderful human I've been doubly lucky to "know" via the Interwebs for many years. Having been fortunate enough to read Kate's words in various places online and in print for ov......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on April 15, 2018

With her deeply melodic writing voice, the guts of a commander marching her troops unswervingly into danger, and the soul of an ocean, Kate Inglis finally, finally helps us understand what Tennyson meant when he penned “it is better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all.” Kate tell......more

Goodreads review by Janet on July 27, 2018

As a parent that has suffered the lost of a beloved baby, this book speaks directly to me. Kate so eloquently speaks to this sad community and offers a pot of tea, lovely writing and immense understanding - having suffered the loss of one of her newborn twins. Quite simply, if you know someone that......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on January 15, 2019

I picked this book up a few days ago at the bookshop that I work at. I didn’t know anything about this book at all. It is a stunning account of grief and loss and living and loving. The copy I have is full of highlights and notes in the margins. I haven’t experienced what Kate Inglis has but I have......more

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