- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Canada (Mar 29 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0676977022
- ISBN-13: 978-0676977028
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.2 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #655,529 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Shadow Child rings of the truth. Intimate, generous, but never confessional."
—National Post
"Anyone who has experienced the loss of a child will relate to Powning’s painful and healing search for meaning in his death."
—Publishers Weekly
"Tenacious, unsparing, in anguish sometimes, but mostly with moving lyricism, Beth Powning pursues and completes what she calls her ‘apprenticeship in love and loss’, a long and not easy journey that we all, women and men, in our way, try to carry through."
—Ernest Hillen, author of Small Mercies: A Boy After War
"In this moving story, New Brunswick writer Beth Powning writes about her life, her loss and the lessons she painfully, and very slowly, learned…. An honest and intensely felt book."
—Toronto Sun
—National Post
"Anyone who has experienced the loss of a child will relate to Powning’s painful and healing search for meaning in his death."
—Publishers Weekly
"Tenacious, unsparing, in anguish sometimes, but mostly with moving lyricism, Beth Powning pursues and completes what she calls her ‘apprenticeship in love and loss’, a long and not easy journey that we all, women and men, in our way, try to carry through."
—Ernest Hillen, author of Small Mercies: A Boy After War
"In this moving story, New Brunswick writer Beth Powning writes about her life, her loss and the lessons she painfully, and very slowly, learned…. An honest and intensely felt book."
—Toronto Sun
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Like many young women, Beth Powning faced decisions of whether and when to start a family. Ambivalence gave way to dreams for a baby, and at age twenty-four she became pregnant. But eleven days past her due date, she delivered a perfect, stillborn son. In this beautifully wrought exploration of motherhood and loss, the acclaimed New Brunswick writer takes us on a powerful journey into the heart of grief and renewal.
Like many young women, Beth Powning faced decisions of whether and when to start a family. Ambivalence gave way to dreams for a baby, and at age twenty-four she became pregnant. But eleven days past her due date, she delivered a perfect, stillborn son. In this beautifully wrought exploration of motherhood and loss, the acclaimed New Brunswick writer takes us on a powerful journey into the heart of grief and renewal.
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Deeply Moving,
By Navan (Toronto, Ontario) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shadow Child: A Woman's Journey Through Childbirth Loss (Paperback)
Shadow Child is exquisitely written and is an amazing, inspiring, and meaningful story. I too lost my first child; she was born still in January. When I read this book, I felt understood. I have had the same thoughts and feelings even though my experience was vastly different. I got to hold my beautiful daughter and a kind nurse saved me a lock of her hair and gave me a card with her footprints on it. She also took photos but they didn't come out. Grief is universal but grieving can be so lonely.
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