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Bedtime Story

Bedtime Story

by Chloe Hooper

Both memoir and manual, Bedtime Story is stunningly illustrated by the New York Times award-winning Anna Walker. In an age of worldwide uncertainty, here is a profound and moving exploration of the dark and light of storytelling.

Format
Paperback
Category
Non-Fiction
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publish Date
May 2022

Let me tell you a story. . . When Chloe Hooper's partner is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive illness, she has to find a way to tell their two young sons. By instinct, she turns to the bookshelf. Can the news be broken as a bedtime tale? Is there a perfect book to prepare children for loss? Hooper embarks on a quest to find what practical lessons children's literature - with its innocent orphans and evil adults, magic, monsters and anthropomorphic animals - can teach about grief and resilience in real life. As she discovers 'the right words are an incantation, a spell of hope for the future' From the Brothers Grimm to Frances Hodgson Burnett and Tolkien and Dahl, all of whom suffered childhood bereavements, she follows the breadcrumbs of the world's favourite authors, searching for the deep wisdom in their books and lives.

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