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Hannah Richell: loving my husband Matt, and finding my way after his death
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Hannah had a beautiful love story with her husband Matt. After he died in a surfing accident, grief broke her open and changed her life in unexpected ways
As a young couple, writer Hannah Richell and her husband Matt left London for a new life in Australia.
They loved the ocean, the sun, and the people.
Then one morning before work, Matt went for a surf at Bronte Beach, and, in a tragic accident, drowned.
Hannah was lost to grief....and overwhelmed by the responsibility of caring for their two little children all alone.
But, painstaking, day by day, month by month, year by year she found her way back to life.
Hannah discovered that her heart could expand to include all of it - the joy and the heartbreak, the sweetness and the pain, the love and the loss.
Further information:
An Ocean And A Day is published by HarperCollins