- Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Canada (APB) (April 12 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0140269835
- ISBN-13: 978-0140269833
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,107,238 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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National Bestseller
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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
From the Back Cover
"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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
—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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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A Family's Story of Loss,
By Jen Mountney (New Lowell, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shadow Child A Womans Journey Through Childbirth Loss (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the biography of Beth Powning. Her first child, Tate, was stillborn at term in the 1970s. Beth struggled with her right to grieve for her son. When her third child Jacob arrived, her long silent grief flooded over her.
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