Finding Joy

Finding Joy

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Author: Gary Andrews

Format: Hardback

Number of Pages: 192


'A dad's account of heartbreak and hope' Daily Mail In 2017, illustrator and animator Gary Andrews suddenly lost his wife, Joy, to sepsis, leaving him a widower and single father to two young children. As a way of coping, Gary posted a doodle a day on Twitter, illustrating the ups and downs of family life after Joy's death. His drawings, which depict his and his children's pain, love and humour with an extraordinary honesty, have since resonated with people all over the world and have been shared tens of thousands of times online. FINDING JOY brings together old and new drawings to tell Gary's story. The result is an astonishingly movingly, often funny and ultimately life affirming book that will help anyone on a grief journey of their own.



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Jenny Volich
A joyous delight of a book

In spite of the subject matter - the book chronicles the real-life experience of a husband whose wife dies suddenly - this book is uplifting, joyful and delightful. Each page is a sketch with a short caption, giving an overview of his experience on the 'rollercoaster of grief'. It covers the experiences of breaking the news to his two young children, learning to be a single parent, learning to live with the ever-present grief, and finding the beauty in life anyway. It's a delight to have on the shelf, and a book that I will come back to time and time again. The best kind of tearjerker, that you walk away from with a renewed sense of gratitude for the joys of life. I recommend this book 10,000%.

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Author: Gary Andrews

Format: Hardback

Number of Pages: 192


'A dad's account of heartbreak and hope' Daily Mail In 2017, illustrator and animator Gary Andrews suddenly lost his wife, Joy, to sepsis, leaving him a widower and single father to two young children. As a way of coping, Gary posted a doodle a day on Twitter, illustrating the ups and downs of family life after Joy's death. His drawings, which depict his and his children's pain, love and humour with an extraordinary honesty, have since resonated with people all over the world and have been shared tens of thousands of times online. FINDING JOY brings together old and new drawings to tell Gary's story. The result is an astonishingly movingly, often funny and ultimately life affirming book that will help anyone on a grief journey of their own.