{"product_id":"when-love-isnt-enough-giselle-oosterbroek-9798288327667","title":"When Love Isn't Enough: One Woman's Journey Through Suicide Loss \u0026 The Hidden Wounds of Childhood Trauma","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat happens when the person you love most chooses to leave, just as you were finally learning to stay?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWhen Love Isn't Enough\u003c\/i\u003e, a woman's world shatters in an instant when her long-time partner, Christopher, dies by suicide. Left behind in the wreckage of unanswered questions, she finds herself suffocating beneath the weight of grief, guilt, and the hollow ache of abandonment. But this isn't just a story about loss. It's a reckoning. With the world and the truth. And most painfully, with herself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs she stumbles through the aftermath, the shock of bereavement quickly spirals into something darker: a slow unravelling of the life she thought she knew. Financial betrayals emerge. Family loyalties fracture. Secrets surface like splinters buried just beneath the skin. Each discovery threatens to rewrite her entire history, not just with Christopher, but with her own childhood, marked by silence, survival, and unspoken wounds. The stakes are not only emotional; they're existential. If she doesn't find a way to face the truth, she might vanish inside it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaught between grief and awakening, she flees her home country and begins an exile of both geography and soul. It is in the quiet loneliness of Scotland's stark beauty that she is finally forced to confront the ghosts of her past, the traumas she's buried, truths she's avoided, and the haunting question that lingers: If love couldn't save Christopher... can anything save her? In learning to parent herself, she discovers what it truly means to survive. Not by forgetting, but by remembering differently. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRaw yet redemptive, \u003ci\u003eWhen Love Isn't Enough\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir that transcends suicide loss to explore the tender territory of self-discovery. It's about what remains after the worst has happened and how rebuilding isn't just possible, but powerful. It's a love story, a survival story, and a story of starting over from the deepest kind of broken. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Cheryl Strayed's \u003ci\u003eWild\u003c\/i\u003e, Glennon Doyle's \u003ci\u003eUntamed\u003c\/i\u003e, and Tara Westover's \u003ci\u003eEducated\u003c\/i\u003e, this memoir will stay with you long after the final page. Vulnerable, unflinching, and fiercely empowering, this is not just a story of what was lost, but everything that was found.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Giselle Oosterbroek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798288327667\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/27\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.19d","brand":"Giselle Oosterbroek","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47136674119935,"sku":"9798288327667","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_04300b7d-16a5-41dd-aed8-fc18743504cd.jpg?v=1755024049","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/when-love-isnt-enough-giselle-oosterbroek-9798288327667","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}