Grieving for a stillborn child is one of the most misunderstood emotions in Western society. In fact, it’s considered a forbidden grief, as if the length of life should dictate the feeling of loss. Still Life: Hidden Stories of Stillbirth and Forbidden Grief tells the plight of seventeen women whose babies died within the first four months of delivery. It tells how these mothers had to fight with a culture that decreed they should feel nothing. While these are stories of pain and anger, they also tell of the courage of ordinary women who go on to live good lives in the face of loss. Each mother describes her tragedy as if it had happened yesterday. They share with us the grief, fear, guilt, anger and even humour, in heart-rending accounts which will show that although a child’s life may be the briefest, it is nonetheless still a life.