Like Kat Lister, I too faced the dilemma of making our home solely mine after the death of my husband (After my husband’s death, I papered over my grief with posters and pictures. No more, 23 August).
The wretchedness of parting with his clothes – and, most poignantly, his shoes – was truly awful. After that horror, my biggest dilemma was his library of books, collected over a lifetime, none particularly valuable and mostly sourced from secondhand bookshops.
