There is no sure route through grieving. Jerusha McCormack provides instead a series of signposts by which we may find our own path to a new life. We are all amateurs at grief, she writes, it comes to us all; we must all go through it. To treat grief as a problem to be fixed, or (worse still) to medicalize it, is to rob us of the extraordinary privilege of encountering this experience on our terms: for each of us has our own way of grieving, and each of us has something special to learn from the process.