Staying A Memoir Jessie Cole by Jessie Cole 9781925626544, 1925626547 instant download after payment.

"Staying is rich and complex – and often surprisingly funny given its dark subject matter. Above all, this memoir is a meditation on what it means to be traumatised by loss, and ultimately to be healed by life."  -  The Sydney Morning Herald

As children, Jessie Cole and her brother Jake ran wild, free to roam their rainforest home as they pleased. They had each other, parents who adored them, and two mysterious, beautiful, clever half-sisters, Billie and Zoe, who came to visit every holidays. But when Jessie was on the cusp of adolescence, tragedy struck, and her happy, loving family fell apart.

"This is a book buoyant with a love for family and the natural world. Its pages are filled with light: the vividness of the living being who wants to live. What cannot be separated from these transports of contentment, though, is an irrefutable darkness… It is a ­literary achievement, but always a human story. Its message is that life has a tenacious power to draw us out of states of bereavement that, if surrendered to, have the capacity to destroy us ­entirely."  - The Australian

This beautifully written, heartbreaking memoir asks what happens to those who are left behind when someone takes their own life. It’s about the importance of home, family and forgiveness - and finding peace in a place where we’ve suffered pain.

By the critically acclaimed author of Darkness On The Edge Of Town and Deeper Water.

Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-fiction, 2019 | Longlisted, Colin Roderick Award, 2019