"[A] masterfully crafted exploration of what it means to lose the
one you love, and one that holds the power to change those who read it.
The author lays out her heartbreaking grief in poetic paragraphs that
will stay with readers for days." -- Booklist STARRED REVIEW
What does it mean to become a widow at 35?
In her mid-thirties Kat Lister lost her husband to brain cancer. After
five years of being a wife and one of being a carer, in love and in and
out of hospitals, she became a widow.
In the year following his death Kat seeks refuge in stories of grief and
widowhood, but struggles to find a language that can make sense of her
experience and the physicality of bereavement. Instead, she turns to the
elements - fire, water, earth, air - on her quest to come to terms with
her grief, to inhabit her body again, and to find out who she is now.
The Elements is a story of love, pain, hope and, ultimately,
transformation.
"Powerful, humane and deeply affecting, Lister's wise and truthful
writing makes this essential reading for anyone touched, and utterly
confused, by grief." Sali Hughes
"The must-read memoir" Red