Losing the love of your life changes everything. The future you expected disappears, familiar routines suddenly feel foreign, and even the kindest people may offer advice that lands in all the wrong ways. Grief can be heartbreaking, disorienting, lonely—and, at times, unexpectedly absurd.
In The Funny Side of Widowhood, Kate McGrath writes with honesty about rebuilding a life after the death of her husband and best friend. She does not offer a timetable for grief or insist that anyone simply “move on.” Instead, she shares what it means to move forward with grief: carrying love, loss, memory, and hope into a life that must be shaped anew.
Through poignant reflections, self-deprecating humor, dating mishaps, practical encouragement, and moments of hard-won joy, Kate reminds readers that laughter is not a betrayal of the person they lost. Sometimes, it is a lifeline.
A Book for Anyone Learning to Live After Loss
This book is for widows and widowers; adults grieving a spouse, partner, family member, or close friend; divorcees; and anyone rebuilding life after a difficult breakup. It is also for the people who want to support them with greater understanding.
Although bereavement, divorce, and breakups are different experiences, each can leave someone facing grief, loneliness, uncertainty, and an unfamiliar future. This book offers reassurance to anyone who needs permission to admit that healing is messy, progress is uneven, and a genuine laugh can coexist with a broken heart.
Inside the Book
“The Funny Side of Widowhood is a gift of love and laughter to help you through the darkest times.”
Meet Kate McGrath
A native New Yorker and longtime public relations and communications professional, Kate McGrath spent her career telling other people’s stories. As the creator and producer of the nationally syndicated radio program The Broadway Hour, she interviewed some of theater’s leading actors, directors, and playwrights. Now she turns her storyteller’s eye inward, transforming one of life’s deepest losses into a memoir filled with truth, tenderness, and humor.
Discover the woman behind the book, her New York career, her love story, and the writing journey that helped her heal.
