Beautiful and heartbreaking

This book is probably the best book I’ve ever read. I cried and laughed so hard and felt so so many emotional s. I’m so grateful for the few hours I got to spend with it.

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Beautiful and heartbreaking

Beautifully written and read story that is as life affirming as it is heartbreaking. Highly recommended

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An incredibly moving and important book

This book is a privilege to read/listen to.
Rob Delaney’s brutal honesty, sharp intelligence and ability to cope by employing dark humour, is a gift.
Our own family is no stranger to this experience or grief and I found his words and emotions incredibly real and honest.
Thank you so much for sharing and providing a funny, non-saccharine account of unfathomable loss and grief.

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Deeply sad and beautiful

This was equal parts devastating and inspiring. Very moving. Thank you for sharing your story with us

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Incredible storytelling

Scroll through the reviews, all those stars multiply them, this book is worth the galactic numbers.
Like many others I cried, then laughed and then pulled the car over to sob in a side street and went to work red eyed and wobbly. Also like so many others I was uplifted, educated and fell in love with this sweet sweet boy and his beautiful family.
Can’t not recommend highly enough but fair warning it’s a heart breaker!

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Incredibly moving book

This book made me cry, made me laugh, made me rethink a lot of things, made my heart hurt and made me hold onto my child really tight.
This is one of those books that will stay with you forever.
Don't wonder any longer if you should listen to this book, just do it.

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My heart works too

What a tribute from a loving father to his sweet sweet boy. I laughed, I cried. Not a few tears, but a deep sobbing pull over and park under a tree on the way home from work kinda cry. Children are incredible. Our love for them infinite. I feel so blessed to have read this book, thank you Rob for sharing your love with us all.

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A Book All Dads Should Read

Not a fan of the clunky, unfunny attempts at humour that are crowbarred into the story (particularly at the beginning), but these do not derail what is an otherwise devastatingly beautiful, painful story. I can’t remember the last time I cried reading/listening to a book, but as a father of a two year old boy this really hit home and had me pulling over whilst driving to have a good sob. Very well narrated too.

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Beautiful and raw!!

This book was so touching, a very vulnerable retelling of his journey through his child's death.

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Brutally honest and funny on life's hard topics

It's raw and brutally honest peppered with witty and sometimes laugh out loud remarks. It is the reality of Robs life from when he found out his baby boy Henry had a brain tumor. I am a bereaved parent and related to so much in this book. I think it would be a great read/listen for anyone in this situation to feel understood but also those who haven't been through something similar to gain an ounce of understanding. I also loved Robs remarks on other hard topics, alcoholism, suicide, cancer, NHS vs American health care. And all throughout the book his son Henry shone, what a gorgeous wee man who will be so missed

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