Life, Love and Loss

Beautiful book of poetry. Little love stories, life affirmations and words to comfort a loss. I am going to re read this as there were so many take away lines i need to write them down and use them in my everyday life. Beautifully read by the author. Thank you #NetGalley for the audiobook to review.

What a beautiful book of poetry. 3 brilliant relevant topics life, love and loss..

Life : affirming and made me think of my own life and how to embrace changes and to appreciate more,

Love : embracing all types of love, parental, partner, sibling and child. This really touched me and allowed me to accept more,

Loss : after losing my mum recently this part of the audiobook resounded firmly with me. It helped me deal with the daily feelings I have, and helped me understand that these feelings are relevant .

I loved the narrators voice it brought the poetry to life . This audiobook is one I will buy in physical copy as I will love reading and dipping into it in future.

Many thanks to Netgalley, Bonnier UK Audio, and the author, for the ALC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Life, Love and Loss is a collection of three sets of poetry by Donna Ashworth dealing with exactly what each of these books are called.

Life - this uplifting beautiful collection tells you to live, to age gracefully, to embrace the changes and to LIVE. I think the most beautiful part of this poetry set was the ones that dealt with ageing where the poet says again and again I want to age, I need to age and I deserve to age, because I have earned. I was so touched by this part as ageing being one of the biggest taboos of life, especially for women. We are taught how to hide the signs of ageing, to try and look young as much as we can. This perspective has helped me look at how I view ageing and how I have begun to accept each passing day as a blessing and not a curse

Love - This poignant collection of beautiful words is about all kinds of love, parental, sibling, as a child, as a partner, as a friend. Its about boundaries, its about acceptance, its about absence of love. It touched me in the way only poetry can.

Loss - This book is for everyone, because no matter how much we are prepared for loss, we are not. Loss is always sudden, even when expected. It seeps in with time, showing up unannounced at sight or feeling of something we relate to the lost ones. This collection is about dealing with those feelings, dealing with the trauma of loss, accepting the status of loss, healing the wounds, the scars and scabs left by loss.

The beauty of poetry as audiobooks for me is that the author reads it, the artist expressing the art which makes it an experience! A worthy and beautiful experience!

I loved listening to these poems and what a treat - 3 books in one! I have bought hard copies of them because sometimes you need to listen to them and sometimes you need to dip in and read whatever resonates. As always beautifully written and just seems to hit the spot. for whatever you're going through or feeling.

This is a collection of poetry covering the subjects of love, life and loss. My favourite section if I had to choose was the loss section. It was beautifully read by the author and I will be revisiting it many times.