Heartstrong

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By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Life is so so short and you just never know how much one decision truly will impact not only your life but everyone else’s lives around you. It is just so clear that they are such a beautiful family and I think it was really special that they shared some intimate family memories - I feel honored to have read them. A few people have said to me that they're really excited to read this book but feel a put off or scared because they know it will make them sad. Heartstrongis an unforgettable book about love, joy, grief, hope and finding a way to keep going in the darkest of times.

I was swept up in El’s and Chumps story, i had loosely followed it in the media but wasn’t fully across it. I had seen this book everywhere and I had it on my list to read for ages, but I wasn’t at a place in my grief journey where i felt i could read this. A quote that really stuck with me from this book was 'a flame that burns twice as bright, burns half as long'. I haven’t lost a partner, but losing my mum in 2020 at the start of covid has left a massive hole in my heart, so i felt i could resonate with El with the passing of her dad.Family, friends, lawyers and doctors helped to give Ellidy the chance to keep a small part of Chumpy alive. I used to think that everything happens for a reason, but I have known a lot of people that have gone through really horrible things and losing their lives young over the past 2-3 years, so my mind shift has definitely changed to sometimes really shit things just happen to the best of people which just breaks my heart. I wish she would’ve just owned that instead of trying to tell me her upbringing/past was as bad as mine. I’ve followed Ellidy’s heartbreakingly beautiful story from the start and also have listened religiously to the Darling, Shine! I started and finished this book in one sitting I was captivated by this incredible memoir that shared the story of Ellidy, Minnie and ofcourse the story of Alex ‘Chumpy’ Pullin in life and in death, I’ve never felt this before about someone I’ve never met but I’m in awe of the human he was and the lives he touched and just the way he lived his life.

I knew nothing about Ellidy or Chumpy before reading and now I feel that Ellidy is one of the strongest people ever. After losing my soul mate and hearing that this feeling of deep love ignites the exact same way with others brought me to some weird peace and the fact Ellidy had that love and loss made me feel not alone. It was a perfect Wednesday morning when Alex ‘Chumpy’ Pullin kissed his partner, Ellidy, goodbye to go spearfishing. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

As many others have said, it truly encapsulates the raw truth about grief, and the journey of losing a loved one, but beyond all else, it is a book filled with hope and light amidst the darkness. Heartstrong is an unforgettable book about love, joy, loss, grief, hope and finding a way to keep going in the darkest of times. I don't think I have ever cried so much while reading a book, and my heart broke with every page of reading how unfair and heartbreaking the loss that Ellidy and Chumpy's family have been through. Heartstrong is an unforgettable book about love, joy, grief, hope and finding a way to keep going in the darkest of times.

My rating doesn’t take away from their experiences at all - I just don’t know what it was about this that I couldn’t get into. In the hours that followed a suggestion was made, did Ellidy want to harvest Chumpy's sperm and try for the baby they both wanted so deeply? Heartstrong is just such an unforgettable book about love, joy, loss, grief, hope and finding a way to keep going in the darkest of times.One of my favourite parts of this story was when Chumpy's dad Chris wrote a few chapters on Chumpy's upbringing and their life as a family. Towards the end of the book, there was a letter that the author's mum had written where she talks about what a passionate environmentalist he was. I think it is just so apparent that Chumpy was an incredible and other-wordly human being that touched so many lives and has left an incredible legacy. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. In the hours that followed a suggestion was made: did Ellidy want to harvest Chumpy’s sperm and try for the baby they both wanted so deeply?

I do want to start following her story on social media but as for the book, not a 'good read' at all. In the hours that followed a suggestion was made: did Ellidy want to harvest Chumpy's sperm and try for the baby they both wanted so deeply? I probably wouldn’t have plucked this off the bookshelf of my own volition and now I can appreciate what the term “book hangover” really means.I felt so much love and hope as well, and Minnie, Ellidy's daughter, is such a beautiful example of a rainbow after a storm. The author and her partner have quite a following of people who wanted to know their story and I imagine this to be the reason for the high ratings.