When Bad Things Happen in Good Bikinis: Life After Death and a Dog Called Boris

by Helen Bailey

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Writer Helen Bailey's world fell apart in early 2011 when she and her workaholic husband took off on a well-earned break to Barbados and days after arriving Helen watched helplessly from the beach as he was dragged out to sea in a rip-current and drowned. Alone and more than three thousand miles from home, she was a wife at breakfast and a widow by lunchtime. With her life as she knew it shattered, Helen began to chronicle living after such devastating and shocking loss in a blog - Planet Grief - and gained a worldwide following from many who had experienced huge loss, whether through death or divorce.

And now her blog has become a book. Anecdotal, witty, heartbreaking and utterly grounded, When Bad Things Happen to Good Bikinis covers all the obvious struggles in the aftermath of a loss, as well as many not-so-obvious but just as poignant everyday obstacles. Helen has emerged from her nightmare, and her story will bring wry humour, comfort and hope to a huge number of people, whatever their circumstances.

  • ISBN10 1910536121
  • ISBN13 9781910536124
  • Publish Date 8 October 2015
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 28 April 2022
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bonnier Books Ltd
  • Imprint BLINK Publishing
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 416
  • Language English