How to Tell Your Brother's Death

"I've been wondering for a long time about how I might merge those two ideas," she says. "And it seemed to me that the people I'd met on writing courses who wanted to put together a story were in a way following the same sort of process." Did you have any hesitations about telling the story of your brother's death? "It was also quite liberating to feel that it's better not to keep secrets, that it'sBetter to bring these things out in the open", she says. 'If I could do it with sympathy and warmth, then that was a permissible thing to do'