Thw Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

American writer Joan Didion's husband, also a writer, suffered a massive heart attack as he sat down to dinner with her one evening. He was probably dead before he hit the floor.They had just returned from a visit to hospital where their daughter, their only child, married a few weeks earlier, was unconscious in an intensive care unit. This is a finely written, profoundly moving and perceptive book about grief from first-hand experience. Didion explores the anatomy of bereavement. She recounts how her thinking was altered by her this loss - it became other than rational - hence the title. The desire to have the loved one return again is overpowering. A must read for all bereavement counsellors.