The saddest book you've ever read . . .

The story of jamie bulger very
also story of Fred and rose West- what they did was evil and

Sorry about the name, more appropriate in some contexts than others! Pranser and danser - I'd love it and mum would too - how much do you want for it - I'll try and CAT you.

Big Tits (!!) I bought this as my fil is similarly affected. Gave it to my mil to read too-she found it very helpful indeed.

You can have my copy if you want it LittleMissRACHEYXmasBigTits?

I cried and cried at the end of Inconceivable by Ben Elton. It is a funny but also poignant easy read

The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy) and another vote for Angela's Ashes

Stasiland. A true telling of the experience of a few people in Eastern Germany under the Stasi. I found it incredibly affecting

Hi, just spotted this thread - can you tell me the author of this book please? My dad has multi infarct dementia and has been hospitalised for the last 5 years, v close to death but too well looked after to die! He is doubly incontinent and no idea who anyone is. So far he has survived septaceamia, pneumonia, prostate cancer to name just a few. It's very unusual to see something specific to MID and not just alzheimers.

Thanks

Ah, it was probably a "personal blub" Collision - its about Multiple Infarct Dementia and the book is actually a series written for the Guardian, covering one woman watching her mother slowly deteriorate from MDI.

What is 'Remind me who I am again,' about please?

I am off to the library tomorrow and need a good book to read.

SherlockLJG....

Remind Me Who I Am, Again

I picked up this book in a charity shop as it looked interesting and read inside cover. Blubbed on the spot and spent the next couple of minutes furiously wiping tears whilst leafing through the records.

Built up the courage to buy it without blubbing at the counter. Blubbed all the way through it at home.

Yup. That gets my vote!

Just finished reading the book by Holly Wells father, was very sad, such a waste of two little lives

I was give a very weird and morbid book by an American missionary when I was about 8. it was about an abandoned child with a disfiguring tumour who was abandoned at the steps of a nunnery and taken in by the nuns.

The tumour gradually killed her but there were plenty of graphic descriptions of her sucking on chips of ice on her death bed and looking forward to joining Jesus.

God it was strange..would love to read it again...

I know it's been naffly franchised but 'Guess how much I love you' (Welsh version) always brings a lump to my throat.
Dd doesn't like it though.

Most Michael Morpurgo books make me blub. My 8yo handles them much better.

John Grisham's 'The Chamber'. I finished it on the bus to work and I was actually sobbing when I finished it. I got a few strange looks!

sorry

saw 'when the wind blows' in the children's library recently and was quite shocked, think it's teenage at the very least. am v haunted by it.

mouse and his child again don't think i can bear to read again

the 'orange fairy book' has a story in it about a sheep dying to save a princess which i sobbed over for about a day as a child

blimey. Charlotte Gray i didn't think was great lit - annoyed by the ending which i understand was changed for the film - but almost unreadably sad. read non-fiction about the Duguay children recently. how can we say anything about this.

A Fine Balance actually i found bleakly uplifting in a way - as well as spectacularly good writing - the main characters just got on with their lives and shared what good came their way.

recently got Children of the Flames out of the library - unable to read more than a chapter or so but i don't think any parent could, or maybe i'm just weak as well as prurient.

I'll Love you Forever by Robert Munsch
it's actually a children's book
I can't even read it to dd I choke up everytime I start reading it.....
mom cuddles her baby to sleep and sings him a lullaby
does the same as he gets older...
he moves out and she sneaks across town to cuddle him
she calls him one night and he goes to her place to cuddle his mum and then goes back to his own place and cuddles his newborn baby

bit more to it than that, even though it's sad I think it's a lovely story but v sad

YEAH klegie..im with you 'when the wind blows' AND 'after youd gone'

and also that j.picardie one..must dig that out again

the old man and the sea..um...

I loved The Time Traveller's Wife, I wept buckets when he met his daughter for the first time.
Lovely Bones was lovely, if harrowing.
Velveteen Rabbit is awesomely moving.
The end of The Horse Whisperer always reduces me to sobs.
The last picture in The Snowman reduces me to a quivering wreck.

I finished Small Island by Andrea Levy recently and found it incredibly moving. I had been unable to sleep so got up and read and read and read... My husband thought something dreadful had happened when he discovered me red-eyed and sobbing in the living room. It is an excellent read.

PS I Love You made me sob and sob. Bought it when I was pregnant with DS and cried so hard I was higging and snivelling like a fool for hours. DP came in from work, took one look at me and rushed over to find out if I was ok - thought something was wrong with me/baby/both. When he found out I was crying over the book he didn't talk to me for ages til he'd calmed down, said I'd given him an awful scare and from then on he screened any books I read!!

When I was a child I read a series of books about a family of foxes written by Tom McCaughren. Run to Earth, Run with the Wind and Run Swift, Run Free. I sobbed at these too as I was/am a huge animal lover.

How does a relative newbie join the book club?
As a HUGE bookworm if there are no horrible rites of passage, torture sessions, induction to go through I'd love to join......

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease

Has anyone heard of a book called Froggy's Little Brother? (I think that's what it's called) I think I was in my teens when I read it - can still remember crying myself to sleep because it was so sad.

Don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but I cry even thinking about The Happy Prince. It's a children's short story by Oscar Wilde. Has me blubbing every time.

The Happy Prince