From comedian and podcaster Cariad Lloyd comes a frank and funny handbook for navigating life, right through to the end.
Cariad Lloyd is an actor, comedian, improviser, podcaster and writer. She is the creator and host of the award-winning podcast Griefcast, where she talks to people about their experiences of grief and death. Past guests gave included Adam Buxton, Aisling Bea, Sara Pascoe, Isabel Allende, Fleur East, Monty Don and Nish Kumar. It won Podcast of the Year at the British podcast awards in 2018. Cariad has also appeared in Peep Show, Have I Got News For You and QI, and is one of the creators of improv show, Austentatious. cariadlloyd.com | @ladycariad | @thegriefcast
Grief: it is unpredictable and funny and sad, and You Are Not Alone
captures this beautifully ... It is a blackly funny, honest,
thought-provoking and compassionate book that will be of comfort to
all who know loss ... Her chapter on modern mourning is fascinating
.... There is useful advice on how to talk to someone who is
grieving .... Lloyd encourages us to consider our own death in a
chapter that is confronting and important. Most of us don't want to
think about it, but doing so could make life much easier for our
loved ones ... As the chapters progress, we see her teenage
irritation and anger soften into a longing to have known him
better. I teared up reading the list of questions she has for him
... This is a book with great heart. As cliched as it might sound,
you do feel less alone after reading it ... This book helps to
break the silence around something we all experience. ''We live, we
die. That's it. Isn't it strange and normal? Isn't it awful and
ordinary?'' Exactly.
*The Times*
This book is a game-changer, a grief companion for our time . . .
Practical, kind, honest, generous. Read it before you need to. You
can thank me later
*Dr Kathryn Mannix, author of WITH THE END IN MIND*
We do not talk enough about grief. Often, it is a lonely path.
Cariad Lloyd has made it her life's work to make us feel less
alone, like we belong to a club, like our grief is both collective
and individual, that there is no right way to remember those no
longer with us, and that there is great comfort in talking about
grief and death. Told with humanity, humour and honesty, this is a
book for all of us, because we will all experience grief at some
point in our lives, and this book will make us feel less alone
*Dr Nikesh Shukla*
Stunning . . . This is a necessary book for all of us, those new to
grief, the old hands, or the simply curious to understand. Even
though it is about death, it’s a guide book to life
*Aisling Bea*
It is the secret desire of many artists to make themselves useful
and Cariad has achieved just that. A wise, warm and important
book
*Robert Webb*
A pick-and-mix of insight into loss, filled with wit, warmth and
wisdom
*Alan Davies*
I love this book. It’s honest and warm and funny (in all the right
places), and connects us to our most vulnerable and robust selves.
Everyone should read it
*Julia Samuel*
The most helpful book that I have ever read about grief…A book that
you should read before grief takes over your life…I couldn’t
recommend this book highly enough. Keep one with you at all times.
At some point you, or someone you love, is going to need it
*Fi Glover*
This book is a must for the grieving, the soon to be grieving, for
those who want to be with others in their grief and, well,
EVERYONE, especially all mental health professionals. Full of
sense, heart and hope. A book that will hold you… Like the friend
you need when you’re grieving
*Philippa Perry*
Cariad has managed to write a book about the saddest thing in the
world, that isn’t sad. Genuinely uplifting, a book that releases a
tight valve in all of us
*Dawn O’Porter*
Reading You Are Not Alone felt like slaking a thirst. Gentle,
compassionate and wise, it normalises and honours the true, messy
scope of grief. It’s the kind of book you want to press into the
hands of every grieving person, whether their loss is fresh or
longstanding. I loved it
*Katherine May*
The thing about being in the white-heat of grief is that you feel
so alone, that nobody else understands, nothing can help. You’re
drowning in your snotty grief-soup, unable to find a flotation
device. But “You Are Not Alone” now. Cariad is here. She knows you.
She knows Grief. She has water-wings in your size. None of us will
escape grief. Obviously. So, all of us must read this book.
Obviously
*Greg Wise*
This is the book that the 14-year-old me needed when my brother
died, but it’s also the book I really need now, aged 41 . . .
Cariad is an extraordinary writer; generous, curious, honest and
deeply empathic. Her book is urgent and necessary, like a friend
offering wisdom and unconditional love during the darkest of times.
It will be a huge support for people of all ages as they encounter
their own journey through grief
*Robert Diament*
A book which manages to move, soothe and somehow still raise the
spirits
*Geoff Norcott*
Cariad Lloyd has changed the way we speak about grief
*Sara Pascoe*
I want everyone I know to read this book. And everyone I don’t
know
*Stevie Martin*
I wish this book had been around when I was younger. This really is
an essential guide to the universal yet completely individual shape
that grief takes. It will be a source of genuine comfort and solace
for anyone. In fact, everyone should read this
*Felix White*
Kind, wise, and punctuated with perfectly timed comic relief . . .
Cariad Lloyd offers us the space to cry, to laugh, and – when we’re
ready – to remember . . . Cariad Lloyd finds the perfect words and
ways to sit with us even as we sit with our grief, and hold our
hands as we heal
*Tara Flynn*
Cariad has such a unique talent for that gentle line between
comfort, humour and mind-blowing revelations around grief – and
this book is one of the best I’ve read on the subject . . . I want
to recommend this book to everyone – because all of our lives will
be touched by grief if they haven’t already, and this is the book
that will make sense of that in a world that seems senseless
*Poorna Bell*
Beautiful, honest, moving and funny, this book is a vital read for
anyone who has been been in, or close to, grief . . . You'll cry,
you’ll laugh, you’ll learn . . . Everyone should read this book
*Rachel Parris*
The comfort blanket you need
*Metro*
A comfy companion for anyone struggling after the death of someone
close
*BBC News*
Honest, funny, companionable first book, part memoir, part
navigational guide through the sheer disarray of feelings that
accompany a bereavement
*Sunday Express*
Powerful, inspiring and frequently funny
*Waterstones*
You are Not Alone is a comfy companion for anyone struggling after
the death of someone close. It also includes insights from the
likes of Marian Keyes, Rev Richard Coles and Isabel Allende
*Radio New Zealand*
Genuinely is an insightful book
*Naga Munchetty*
This warm, darkly funny book’s greatest strength is its sense of
companionship. It is a shoulder to cry on, letting readers know
that whichever way they choose to mourn, it’s OK, and they will be
OK
*i Paper*
With warmth and compassion, Cariad shares her wisdom about how to
navigate
*Woman's Own*
Cariad Lloyd’s warmth, generosity and gentle pragmatism makes her
book one of the most reassuring I have read . . . It is an account
of carrying grief and living alongside it, imperfectly . . . You
Are Not Alone is explicitly designed to reassure, to show the
reader that while they won’t ‘get over’ their bereavement they will
learn to live with it and feel happiness again
*The Spectator*
Both a memoir and a manual. The book which she describes as for
"anyone who has ever felt lost in grief", feels like a warm bath.
Lloyd writes with arresting honesty . . . But the book is not just
tragedy and suffering. Lloyd's chatty writing style is familiar and
funny
*New Statesman*
Unpacking an issue as complex and delicate as grief and making it
approachable and digestible is no easy feat, but Cariad Lloyd
accomplishes just that with this striking new book
*Independent*
Lloyd’s wry mash-up of her own mourning with the experiences of
people she has spoken to for her program Griefcast mimics the
muddle of grief itself, and gives us permission to be all over the
place, fine one moment, sad and bewildered the next
*Sydney Morning Herald*
If you’re new to bereavement, looking for a way through the death
of a loved one, perhaps this doesn’t scream of optimism. But Cariad
Lloyd’s warmth, generosity and gentle pragmatism makes her book one
of the most reassuring I have read
*Spectator Australia*
In this moving and funny meditation on loss, Cariad Lloyd argues
that shared stories are an effective response to death
*Observer*
A friend handed me Cariad Lloyd’s You Are Not Alone after the death
of our close friend and I’m not sure I would have made it through
the year without it
*New Statesman: Books of the Year 2023*
“Life and death are messy” is the message of this warm-hearted,
sometimes funny self-help guide
*The Times: 13 Best Biographies and Memoirs of 2023*
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