Hannah's Gift: Lessons from a Life Fully Lived - Softcover

"Maria Housden's testament to a dying daughter's transcendent wisdom, a mother's all-too-earthly devotion, and love's uncanny gift for transforming the greatest suffering into joy and self-awareness comes as a gift to us all."
-Mark Matousek, author of Sex Death Enlightenment

"Hannah's Gift is a celebration of life in all its richness, pain, mystery, and wonder. Maria Housden gives us renewed faith in the transformative power of love."
-John Welwood, author of Toward a Psychology of Awakening

"As Maria Housden guides us through her daughter's grave illness, we too receive Hannah's gift to the world. Like a master spiritual teacher, this remarkable little girl opens our hearts to what matters-compassion for ourselves and one another."
-Joan Duncan Oliver, former editor in chief, One Spirit
Book Club and New Age magazine

"Superlatives seem pointless. Read it and weep for the sheer joy of being alive."
-Jeremiah Abrams, author of Meeting the Shadow

"This portrait of a short, joyous life can be comforting to anyone who has lost a child."
-Kirkus Reviews

In a comforting guide for the bereaved, a mother shares an inspirational series of life-transforming lessons based on the final battle with cancer of her three-year-old daughter, Hannah, exploring the ways in which the irrepressible child brought truth, joy, faith, compassion, and wonder to the world. Reprint.