I enjoyed Just Me by Sheila Hancock which is the follow up to her book The Two of Us (which I haven't read). Sheila writes of her new life as a widow following the death of her husband John Thaw. She is in her 70s and discovering more about herself and her family history. She decides she is not afraid to visit places she enjoyed with her husband and she deliberately goes outside her comfort zone. It is a beautiful story written with honesty and love as she continues to remember her treasured married life. It is not a "sad" story told self-pityingly. She says "I must not push away memories of John just because they might make me cry, because that way I will lose the joy as well as the pain." Recommended. 4/5
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