Being Adam Golightly: One man's bumpy voyage to the other side of grief

Description

The cruel early death of his beloved wife Helen tears up the script of Adam Golightly s middle-class, middle-aged existence. Miserably single, outnumbered by his kids and haunted by life s screaming fragility, he recounts his fight back against the crappy hand of fate.This irreverent and frank memoir follows Adam s snakes-and-ladders journey through his grief in the year following his wife s death, as he struggles with small town tongue wagging, the trauma of teenage bra shopping and online dating anarchy. Adam s is the biggest mid-life crisis anyone could face and as he starts to build a new, alternative life for himself and his children, he shows not just how to survive bereavement but how to be transformed by it.

Adam Golightly (pseudonym) is a recently widowed father of two. A former account planner in a big advertising firm, he now writes a weekly column in The Guardian about adjusting to life as a single father.

"Poignant, funny, ultimately uplifting. We are all Adam" - Harriet Green, Observer Magazine