About the Author: Hannah Richell
I published my debut novel, Secrets of the Tides, in 2012, and since then I have written four family dramas and two thrillers, with my work translated into twenty-one languages. In 2026, I published An Ocean and a Day, a deeply personal journey through love and grief. My brother, Will, was diagnosed with NETS in 2019 and very sadly died in 2021 at the age of forty-one, leaving behind a wife and two young children. Since Will’s death, my family has supported NeuroEndocrine Cancer Australia with their efforts to support those diagnosed with the illness and in their fundraising for important research. We firmly believe that people living with neuroendocrine cancer should have access to the swiftest diagnosis, compassionate care, and ultimately, we hope, a cure
About the novel: An Ocean and a Day
An utterly riveting, moving and poignant memoir of grief and loss that will speak to anyone who’s ever lost someone they love.
A riveting, moving and uplifting memoir of love and pain, grief and hope, An Ocean and a Day will resonate with anyone who’s ever lost someone they love. Offering solidarity to other broken hearts, this book is about how we face the hardest days of our lives – and its many gritty little pearls of insight and hard-won wisdom will spark conversations about how we confront, discuss and process the very real, very human experience of loss in our modern, often secular age. Intimate, powerful and profound, An Ocean and a Day will join the canon of those classic memoirs of loss and abrupt, unwanted life changes such as Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, Amy Bloom’s In Love and Geraldine Brooks’s Memorial Days.
