A Heart That Works: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Delaney is an American actor who was living in London for TV filming in 2016 when his third son, baby Henry, was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Another thing I know, is that a lost child slipping out of the memories, or thoughts, or the consciousnesses of the rest of the world, (that continues to chug on despite the enormous hole carved out of your soul) is another kind of agony.

My question is, ultimately, do you feel like this book was written for you , for others who are hurting with a similar type of pain, or something else altogether? A Heart That Works – the title is taken from a Juliana Hatfield lyric – is his tender, visceral and improbably funny memoir detailing the gruelling treatment that followed, and Henry’s eventual death, aged two, at home surrounded by his family.The last food he ate before the tracheostomy that left him permanently tube-fed was a chocolate croissant. His ability to weave laughter into something so dark also makes the book accessible for a wide audience, as the author gives readers permission to fully absorb his family’s story, to empathize and understand, without having to remain straight-faced and downcast. but most of all, how your child and their death is with you every single second (“You forget that my son died. the fact that delaney's relationship with his wife leah deepens throughout the unthinkable tells me everything i need to know about this family.

It is pages and pages of blog postings and stand up routines about how Henry’s death affected Rob Delaney and how much Rob Delaney grieved and how much Rob Delaney loved his family.People don’t appreciate just how addictively wonderful it is to help someone you love, however exhausting, however devastating. For level access to the Royal Festival Hall from the Queen Elizabeth Hall Slip Road off Belvedere Road, please use the Southbank Centre Square Doors. This post contains affiliate links, which means I receive a small commission, at no extra cost to you, if you make a purchase using this link. Instead it felt like my teacher had turned away from the messiness of it all, leaving me further stranded in that remote emotional cottage-in-the-woods where all young bereaved people find themselves.

Plans to read hefty tomes on train trips to Somerset and Yorkshire were soon thwarted thanks to train strikes, and – given that my body clock soon adjusted to late nights and lie-ins – I no longer had the early hours of the morning to spend with my nose in a book. I think it could be healthy for people who are struggling after losing a loved one, to get a little jolt of their memory.Tickets can only be sold through the Southbank Centre and our authorised agents, and can't be resold. A memoir that charts Henry’s life – from his birth in London – where Delaney, his wife, and their two young sons moved to from LA to his illness – after weeks of vomiting he is diagnosed with a brain tumour – to his family’s desperate attempts to cure his illness. Two years later Henry died, and his family watched their world fall away to reveal the things that matter most. I’m honored to be the publisher of Henry’s story and work with Rob once again,” says Julie Grau, who published Delaney’s previous memoir Rob Delaney: Mother.