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On Father

By: John Birmingham
Narrated by: John Birmingham
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Summary
 John Birmingham's father died. And his life fell apart. The next six months were spent grinding through the dark forests of depression until he finally emerged out of the darkness onto sunlit upland. A unique yet universal story, On Father reaches out to everyone who has experienced and survived deep grief.©2019 John Birmingham (P)2019 Bolinda Publishing Essays Grief & Loss Personal Development Relationships

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'Deeply moving. Beautifully written. I wept. For John’s dad, and anew—for the loss of my own.' (Peter FitzSimons AM, bestselling author of Gallipolli)
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Since 2000ish JB specialised in explodey airport novels with unlikely heroes wearing risible horned helmets or wielding enchanted fire axes, but for the majority of his career he crafted non-fiction, of varying degrees of thinky to suit the glossy mag market.

In On Father he writes of a personal matter. He writes of his grief on the passing of his Dad and how that morphed into depression.

John crafts a fine sentence and an elegant chapter as he considers the Thinker-Tinkerers and theologists thoughts on grief, melancholy, and slabs of cheesey carbs in a hospital cafe.

Beautiful personal recollection with fries and gravy.

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