Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog: 'Will make you laugh, cry and stroke your dog (or any dog)' ―Sarah Millican

Reviews

R. Littledale

I will leave Emily to introduce you to Raymond, though – as she can do it far better than I. After the loss, and the loss, and the loss again comes something new and rather wonderful.

Our inability to do so as a nation is making some lonely people lonelier still. There will be many ways to change that, but one of them will be when authors introduce us to what loss feels like, whilst still proving that there is a life beyond it. Of course, the price of love is the depth of loss – and you should brace yourself to feel it here.

In language which you will come to recognise in the book itself, it is all a bit ‘chilled hands round steaming mug of tea’ – stings a bit at first but then warms you up so much you don’t want to put it down. This is a book about death which is a celebration of life. This is an honest, warm, engaging account of what it means to love the people you did not choose – your family. I started reading this book because I bumped into Emily at an event where I was trying to encourage people to talk about bereavement and loss.

Emily tells it with a disarming frankness and a rawness which I found impossible to resist.