{"product_id":"memorial-days-9780733651083","title":"Memorial Days","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 STELLA PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 ABA BOOKDATA ADULT NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey toward peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eHorse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMany cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape and to-do lists. This is exactly what happened to Geraldine Brooks when her partner of more than three decades, Tony Horwitz - just sixty years old and, to her knowledge, vigorous and healthy - collapsed and died on a Washington, DC street.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter spending their early years together in conflict zones as foreign correspondents, and living in Sydney, Geraldine and Tony settled down to raise two boys on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The life they built was one of meaningful work, good humour, and tenderness, as they spent their days writing and their evenings cooking family dinners or watching the sun set with friends. But all of this came to an abrupt end when, on the US Memorial Day public holiday of 2019, Geraldine received the phone call we all dread. The demands were immediate and many. Without space to grieve, the sudden loss became a yawning gulf.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThree years later, she booked a flight to remote Flinders Island off the coast of Tasmania with the intention of finally giving herself the time to mourn. In a shack on the island's pristine, rugged coast she often went days without seeing another person. There, she pondered the various ways in which cultures grieve, and what rituals of her own might help to rebuild a life around the void of Tony's death.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA spare and profoundly moving memoir that joins the classics of the genre, \u003ci\u003eMemorial Days\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of a larger-than-life man and a timeless love between souls that exquisitely captures the joy, agony and mystery of life.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'It's personal, immediate, an opening up. It's from the heart . . . Geraldine's gift to us is that she has written her truth' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Heartbreaking yet hopeful. We're lucky to have Brooks to help us make sense of the world' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Quiet, vulnerable and tender . . . Radically and beautifully open' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSYDNEY MORNING HERALD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Another gift from one of our greatest living writers. It is one for all readers, but especially the bereaved, who will find comfort in Brooks' beautiful, aching prose and deft hand'\u003cb\u003e ARTSHUB\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'[Brooks] is a practised storyteller and her ease with a sentence brings lilting momentum to the well-trod terrain of literary grief' \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780733651083\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 31 Mar 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Hachette Australia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: Sydney, Australia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 20.9(H)x13.5(L)x2(W)220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 220\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eAustralian-born Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in Sydney's western suburbs. She worked for the \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e and in 1982 she won the Greg Shackleton scholarship to the journalism master's program at Columbia University. Later she worked for the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, where she covered crises in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. In 2006 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her novel \u003ci\u003eMarch\u003c\/i\u003e. Her novels \u003ci\u003eCaleb's Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePeople of the Book\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Chord\u003c\/i\u003e were \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers, and \u003ci\u003eYear of Wonders\u003c\/i\u003e was an international bestseller, translated into more than 25 languages. She is also the author of the acclaimed non-fiction works \u003ci\u003eNine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eParts of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eForeign Correspondence\u003c\/i\u003e. Her novel \u003ci\u003eHorse \u003c\/i\u003ewas the winner of the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award and Fiction Indie Book Award for 2023, the 88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for 2023, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the ARA Historical Novel Prize 2022 and the BookPeople Adult Fiction Book of the Year 2023. In 2011 she presented Australia's prestigious Boyer Lectures, later published as \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of Home\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2016 she was appointed Officer in the Order of Australia for her services to literature. Geraldine Brooks divides her time between Sydney and Massachusetts and has two sons.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"Geraldine Brooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48544251183321,"sku":"9780733651083","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9780733651083.jpg?v=1776452041","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/memorial-days-9780733651083","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}