Bonnie Baird

Walk Me to the Door, Love Bonnie Baird

This is the second part of a love story. Walk Me to the Door, Love is an unflinching look at the raw nature of grief, and its often frozen landscape. Written in the wake of the death of a much loved spouse, partner, and best friend, it charts the inner life of the heart trying to absorb and fathom what has happened, and how to move forward. There is movement here, as in "shards of ice drifting towards open sea" (Iceberg). There is hope here: "It keeps shifting like something winged and fragile and carried on the wind" (The Nature of Hope). Amid the longing to be with the one who has gone (Home) and the further loss of friends and a shared home (Sale of the Cottage), there is the dawning understanding of the beauty of this time too: "can I leave the door open, just a bit?" (Threshold). And of the community of those grieving (Three Women in a Bar). If you are in a loving long-term relationship, if you have said Goodbye to a beloved of many years, if you wonder at how people cope with such loss, this book provides insight into an experience most of us will face.