This Shining Life

byHarriet Kline, Olivia Darnley (Read by)

a powerful novel about treasuring life

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For Rich, life is golden.
He fizzes with happiness and love.
But Rich has an incurable brain tumour.

After Rich dies, his wife Ruth can't see how to how to keep living, and their young son Ollie is intent on working out the meaning of life. Because everything happens for a reason. Doesn't it?

Rich leaves behind a family without a father, a husband, a son and a best friend. And he also leaves behind a present for each of them. But while Ollie tries to understand the message within each present, Ruth finds herself adrift. The grief that is threatening to drown her has also unearthed long buried pain. Pain she has to face if she is to have any chance of moving on...

A beautifully written and endlessly touching debut that's sure to tug your heartstrings.

Phaedra Patrick, The Library of Lost and Found, and The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper.

About Harriet Kline

Harriet Kline works part time registering births, deaths and marriages and writes for the rest of the week. Her story Ghost won the Hissac Short Story Competition and Chest of Drawers won The London Magazine Short Story Competition.

Other short stories have been published online with Litro, For Books' Sake, and ShortStorySunday, and on BBC Radio 4. She lives in Bristol with her partner and two teenage sons.
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  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • ISBN: 9781473592858
  • Length: 497 minutes
  • Price: £13.00
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