“Moira Farr writes with such dignity about the grief caused by the suicide of a loved one that her book will surely be a consolation to those who share her tragic experience. For the rest of us, she makes the desperate gesture of suicide all too comprehensible and terribly real. After Daniel is a remarkable book.”
—Rosemary Sullivan
“After Daniel is poignant and brilliant. Moira Farr has written beautifully about the two major themes in human existence: loss and healing.”
—june Callwood
“Moira Farr takes the 1994 suicide of her boyfriend Daniel Jones as the center point for an impressively researched examination of virtually every facet of the vigorous suicide survivors industry. But it is in the chapters on her own specific grief, guilt and confusion over Jones’ death that Farr touches, most memorably, on the ultimate unknowability of those whose solution to the pain of keeping on going is to cease to do so.”
—John Colapinto
“I found After Daniel to be a compelling and literate story of suicide survivorship, the struggle to survive the unanswerable. Moira uses her own experiences and insights as a doorway into an exploration of the many philosophical and social issues raised by suicide. Her personal story is a vehicle for confronting the emotional complexities faced by all survivors. It is both thoughtful and though provoking.”
—Karen Letofsky, Executive Director,
Survivor Support Programme
“In After Daniel, Moira Farr proves you can find life endlessly complex yet describe it with clarity; you can live through a deathly experience and write a book full of vitality; and you can be utterly sunk inside your subject but still observe it brilliantly. By the end, you feel you know Daniel, who died. You feel you know Moira, who lived on and wrote the book And you know all the rest of us, yourself included, a little better too.”
—Rick Salutin