Travels With My Grief
Winner of the PNWA Nancy Pearl Award 2024
When Susan Bloch lost her partner John far too early, she faced her grief with courage – and what many would term a moment of madness.
Giving up her successful career in the UK, she moved overnight to India, facing not just the uncertainties and worries of a new life in a strange land – and being one of the only white women in a high-powered corporate role – but coping with her own very real grief at the death of her husband.
Susan’s brave – and some might say unconventional – approach to tackling her grief provides a compelling and very human insight into loss of a loved one, and at the same time delivers a beautifully written love letter to India in all its vibrant, chaotic, life-affirming glory.
Refreshingly honest and highly emotive, Travels with My Grief is as engaging as it is inspiring, and is more than a simple self-help manual or travelogue. This book is a genuinely life-changing read, and one that should be read by anyone who wants an insight into the joys, belief, spirituality and hope that living can bring us all.
Susan Bloch is a writer, published author and leading executive coach. Author of four business books (that have been published in English, German, Polish, Mandarin and Turkish), Susan is a regular contributor to several literary journals. A South African by birth, and now based in Seattle, Susan is an accomplished international speaker and avid traveler, and an experienced self-promoter and media user. When she is not writing or consulting, Susan enjoys Yoga, hiking and spending time with her grandchildren. She lives in Seattle.
News & Reviews
- ‘Emotionally raw, endearingly wry, and sweetly seductive.’ – Kim Barnes, Pulitzer finalist and author of In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country
- ‘A savoury, sensual, sparkling memoir you won’t forget.’ – Dori Jones Yang, author of When the Red Gates Opened: A Memoir of China’s Reawakening
- ‘Heart-wrenching and gorgeous. Travels with my Grief is a marvellous, dazzling memoir.’ – Priscilla Long, author of Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
