It's Not Raining, Daddy, It's Happy by Benjamin Brooks-Dutton - ISBN: 9781444754759
Paperback
A widower’s journey: loss, love, and finding joy with his son.

It's Not Raining, Daddy, It's Happy

  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    9 June 2015

Summary

Ben Brooks-Dutton’s wife, the great love of his life, was knocked down and killed by a car as he walked beside her, pushing their two-year-old son in his buggy. Life changed forever. Suddenly Ben was a widower deep in shock, left to raise their bewildered child alone.

In the aftermath Ben searched for guidance from men in similar situations, but it appeared that young widowed fathers don’t talk. Well-meaning loved ones admired his strength. The unwritten rule seemed to be to ‘shut up,…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781444754759
ISBN-10:1444754750
Author:Benjamin Brooks-Dutton
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder & Stoughton
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:9 June 2015
Weight:280g
Dimensions:198mm x 131mm x 28mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

A moving account of the relationship between a father and son, and how they survived the loss of their wife and mother. - Australian Mother and Baby Magazine

A moving account of the relationship between a father and son, and how they survived the loss of their wife and mother. - Australian Mother and Baby Magazine

About The Author

Benjamin Brooks-Dutton

Ben was born in 1979 in Southport, where he lived with his parents and two elder brothers until he left home for university aged 18. After studying for four years in Leeds and Spain, Ben embarked on a career in public relations, which lasted 12 years and saw him take charge as the managing director of a large PR firm in London in 2012. Just months later his wife, Desreen, was hit and killed by a car leaving Ben a widower and sole parent to their two-year-old son, Jackson. Ben started a blog called Life as a Widower two months after his wife’s death in a bid to help others by opening up about his own experiences of grief. Within months the blog amassed a worldwide audience united in grief and became the precursor for Ben’s first book.

He and Jackson live together in southeast London.

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