Now is Not the Time for Flowers : What No One Tells You About Life, Love and Loss

“The authentically inspiring hope Stacey’s beautiful writing offers, is mined at the coalface of grief and survival. She shines much-needed light into dark spaces.” —Donna Ashworth, bestselling author of Loss

When Stacey Heale’s husband, Greg, was diagnosed with incurable cancer on their daughter’s first birthday, it felt like her life as she knew it was drawn to a halt.

Confronted with the end of her relationship and her family as she knew it, Stacey started contemplating the realities of life and death – and the fundamental differences between our expectation and reality. Now is Not the Time for Flowers is Stacey’s unflinchingly beautiful and honest memoir that addresses the big conversations that imminent death dictates, boldly taking the reader on a journey through the full spectrum of our modern lives and its complexities. Told through the lens of her own life and the death of her husband, Stacey examines the messy and unexpected realities of love, desire, motherhood, death, grief, identity, personal growth and the challenges and questions that our nuanced lives force upon us.

Now is Not the Time for Flowers is a powerful call to arms and a new way of looking at life, love and loss.