After Alexander
Pryor, Jan / Smith, Katharine
In 1981, during a family year away from New Zealand, four-month-old Alexander died in a London hospital.Jan Pryor blends her personal experience of losing a child with her professional understanding of family dynamics and children's development. The clumsiness of consolation, the challenges of organising a funeral - and what to do with Alexander's ashes, the isolation, being far from friends and family, continuing family life with two other yo...