‘Profoundly generous. It will leave you feeling more human.’ Chris Cleave

In 2014, author Hannah Richell was living a happy and fulfilled life in Sydney. Married, with two young children, she was in the middle of writing her new novel when the police knocked at her door to deliver the news that her husband, Matt, had been killed in a surfing accident at Tamarama Beach. An Ocean and a Day is the riveting, intimate and poignant story of the rocky journey she travelled over the first two years of loss, but it is also, more uniquely, an account of what happens beyond those early years, when time and distance offer perspective and hope.

Life-affirming and illuminating, An Ocean and a Day is a memoir about love and loss, marriage and mothering, healing and hope, and how we face the hardest days of our lives. It is a book that will pull your days into sharp focus, make you draw your loved ones close, and maybe even leave you a little transformed.