AFTER YOU: Letters of Love, and Loss, to a Husband and Father autorstwa Natascha McElhone


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

There was a two-part serialisation of After You in the Sunday Times, and there have been excellent reviews in both The Observer and The Daily Mail.

"[Natascha McElhone's] honest, intelligent account of bereavement is an extraordinarily moving testament... Her lyrical, fluid prose hits the spot with such precision it can leave you wincing in pain. She writes with intelligence and insight."--The Observer

You will see the whole review at http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/04/after-you-natascha-mcelhone

"To publish an account of her widowhood when it is still so raw might seem almost impossible. But McElhone, as her readers swiftly realise, is brave and generous... 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."--Daily Mail

You will see the whole review at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1291539/The-husband-I-loved-dead--So-I-feel-happy--AFTER-YOU-LETTERS-OF-LOVE-AND-LOSS-TO-A-HUSBAND-AND-FATHER-BY-NATASCHA-MCELHONE.html#ixzz0szZ4BUsW