How to Say Goodbye: An emotional and uplifting new book about love, friendship and letting go

by Katy Colins

‘I adored this story and instantly fell in love with Grace Salmon. A beautiful book about learning to let go and start living your life’ Nina Pottell, Prima ‘ A touching story about learning to live’ Sun No one is ever happy to see Grace Salmon. As a funeral arranger, she’s responsible for steering strangers through the hardest day of their lives. It’s not a task many would want – but, for Grace, giving people the chance to say a proper goodbye to the ones they love is the most important job in the world. From the flowers in the church to the drinks served at the wake,Grace knows it’s the personal touches that count – and it’s amazing what you can find out about someone from their grieving relatives … or their Facebook page. But when she accidentally finds out too much about someone who’s died, Grace is finally forced to step out of the shadows… and start living. ‘I adored this story and instantly fell in love with Grace Salmon. A beautiful book about learning to let go and start living your life’ Nina Pottell, Prima ‘A touching story about learning to live’ Sun ‘Uplifting & touching’ Rachael Lucas ‘A heartwarming read’ Closer ‘Emotional and heartfelt’ Cheryl ‘A thoroughly enjoyable story’ Julie

‘This story was beautiful, both heartwarming and heart wrenching’ Patrice ‘Funny, touching, poignant and at times, sad’ Julia ‘Couldn’t put it down’ Vicky

384 pages, Paperback

Published September 3, 2019

About the author

Katy Colins is a bestselling author of uplifting, feel-good fiction.

The acclaimed travel blogger's experiences inspired her to pen 'The Lonely Hearts Travel Club' series and saw her labelled the 'Backpacking Bridget Jones' by the global media, when she sold all she owned, filled a backpack and booked a one-way ticket to south east Asia and never looked back.

Nowadays, Katy has swapped backpacking for writing books and trying to tame toddlers. If you want to find out more about Katy's new releases you can sign up to her newsletter at www.katycolins.com.

She loves to procrastinate on social media when she should be writing, so please do stop by and say hi! You can find her @notwedordead or @katycolins.

Reviews

[Justkeepreading · Rating 5 out of 5]

No-one is ever happy to see Grace Salmon.
As a funeral arranger, she’s responsible for steering strangers through the hardest day of their lives. It’s not a task many would want – but, for Grace, giving people the chance to say a proper goodbye to the ones they love is the most important job in the world.

From the flowers in the church to the drinks served at the wake,Grace knows it’s the personal touches that count – and it’s amazing what you can find out about someone from their grieving relatives … or their Facebook page. But when she accidentally finds out too much about someone who’s died, Grace is finally forced to step out of the shadows… and start living.

A heartbreaking, beautiful story. That will make you loose hours in a day. One that you definitely need tissues for. Highly recommend

[Sara Clifford-gray · Rating 3 out of 5]

Initially I really loved this book - I liked Grace the main character and felt that she had a bit of Eleanor Oliphant about her - however as the story went on it seemed to be a familiar read and I was wondering for ages if I’d read it before however it only dawned on me at the end that it is so similar to Grace After Henry by Eithne Shortall - even to the point where two of the main characters were also called Grace and Henry and that the plot had parallels and so I felt robbed!

That aside it was an easy read - the characters were believable even Ms Morris who completely irritated me at the beginning but who I ended up falling in love with.

If it wasn’t for the Grace After Henry similarities I would have scored it higher.

[Lucy Mitchell · Rating 4 out of 5]

An enjoyable read. It was an interesting and uplifting story. Grace’s character arc is great and there was a good mix of colourful characters.

[Lindsay · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'd rather give this a 2.5. I couldn't keep up with who was who and who related to who. It felt there was too much detail. I think my mistake was reading 2/3 similar books in one short period.

[Rachael Nelson · Rating 5 out of 5]

An emotional rollercoaster! Very heart warming!

[Sarah Rayner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it couldn’t put it down made me smile and cry at the same time lovely book