Shadow Child

A powerful novel from Radio 4 presenter and Times columnist Libby Purves, inspired by the loss of her own son.

''Family love is one of the most powerful elemental forces on earth, and at that moment, our last moment as a unit of three, we rode a great curling triumphant wave of it, all together. Death may have thought that he won, but I think otherwise.''

There is no right way to deal with the loss ...