ABSTRACT
The prospect of the rest of your life stretching ahead without your parent can be extremely daunting. You may wonder how on earth you can survive these days, months and years to come. One day you think you are coping well, the next you feel worse than ever. Sometimes you can feel, as Dora Carrington did after the death of her beloved Lytton Strachey; that 'every day it gets harder to bear'.
