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y separately published work icon Baby Lost : A Story of Grief and Hope single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Baby Lost : A Story of Grief and Hope
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'What happens when a death occurs within your body, but you survive? Two days after Christmas, law lecturer Hannah Robert, eight months pregnant, was driving her partner and stepkids home from a picnic when their car was crushed by a four-wheel-drive. Hannah’s baby didn’t survive.

'When Hannah told her story in court, the judge wept. In her struggle to make sense of the personal and legal aftermath, Hannah had to find out what it means to mother a dead child and to renegotiate her own relationship with hope.

'Her powerful story is written with clarity and beauty, shining light on an unimaginably dark event and is, unexpectedly, tempered with life and promise. ' (Publication summary)

 

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    • Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Melbourne University Press , 2017 .
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      • Published: 31st July 2017
         

      ISBN: 9780522869439

Works about this Work

The Uses of Adversity Christine Jackman , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 7 October 2017; (p. 24)

‘What’s the good of thinking of misery when you’re ­already miserable?” That question from Anne Frank sparked some intense debates when we were studying her diary at high school. What was the value of examining the travails of another? Would we learn about life’s greater meaning? Could it help us keep our daily challenges in perspective?As guidebooks for resilience, the three books under review fit into that thinking, telling acutely personal tales of how to survive, and possibly even thrive, in the face of enormous personal trauma.' (Introduction)

The Uses of Adversity Christine Jackman , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 7 October 2017; (p. 24)

‘What’s the good of thinking of misery when you’re ­already miserable?” That question from Anne Frank sparked some intense debates when we were studying her diary at high school. What was the value of examining the travails of another? Would we learn about life’s greater meaning? Could it help us keep our daily challenges in perspective?As guidebooks for resilience, the three books under review fit into that thinking, telling acutely personal tales of how to survive, and possibly even thrive, in the face of enormous personal trauma.' (Introduction)

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