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‘This wasn''t the story I wanted to tell. The end happened in the middle.’

Part love story, part grief memoir, Dear Blacksmith recounts the author’s brief and unconventional love affair with ''Blacksmith Paul'', a maverick who lived out on the moors in the Peak District – and the heart-rending details of her grief after his sudden death, just eight months into their relationship.

Adapted from the much-loved blog Swimming Through Clouds, the story is told through a series of searingly-honest diary entries, reflections, and poems addressed to the Blacksmith. In a heartfelt rejection of ''stiff upper lip'' culture, ''Writer Beverley'' sheds all inhibitions to examine grief at its most raw and brutal; from planning her love’s funeral with a family that she’d never met, to learning to live alone again following the loss both of her soulmate and her mother, a few weeks earlier.

A complex journey from the depths of sorrow to the beginnings of recovery, this book is a work of extraordinary sincerity; and ultimately, a hard-earned testament to the power of love and the resilience of the human spirit.

Book details

• Full title: Dear Blacksmith
• Author: Beverley Ward
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9781912436378
• ISBN: 191243637X
• ID: 24631340
• Publisher: Valley Press
• Weight: 442 g
• Dimensions: 130 × 198 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. January 2020

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