Max Porter’s novel "Grief is the Thing with Feathers" (2015) has been gracing all good bookshops for a decade now: an unmissable presence at the "themed" tables or staff picks. Consequently, I have leafed through its pages several times, enough to glean that the story is about the death of a woman who leaves behind bereaved children and a husband and how a winged creature, a crow, appears in their lives to calibrate their feelings. It always seemed like the sort of book that commanded reverence before anyone had even opened it.
The 21st century has been marked by a campaign to acknowledge all manner of feelings and you can find any number of videos on social media about how important it is to give time and
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