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Kathryn Flett shares her profound experience of losing her son Jackson and the complexities of grief that followed.

Send us Fan Mail Kathryn Flett is one of Britain's best known journalists, critics and memoirists. In this powerful and deeply personal conversation, Kathryn discusses the unimaginable loss of her son Jackson and the long, complex journey through grief that followed. With extraordinary openness, she explores the many different shades of grief experienced by everyone involved, why she initially believed the police officer at her door was "talking nonsense", and why real life bore little ...

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