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Piece By Piece by Laura Bradford is the most beautiful contemporary novel about love and loss. You will definitely need tissues.

Love does not die when we lose someone. Love remains for all eternity. When we love deeply, we hurt deeply. The novel shows just how painful grief is. It reveals the stages of grief from tears to anger to acceptance. We need support and time to learn to live again.

There is guilt. “Guilt over being the one still alive.” There is guilt associated with beginning to laugh again.

The reader feels the despair over loss, as we constantly run a ‘do-over- in our heads. There are things we wish we’d done and things we wish we had not done.