Society needs to embrace the 'long-term value of sorrow' and stop 'shaming' people for experiencing pain years and even decades after a bereavement, according to a new book on the phenomenon of long-lasting grief. The Aftergrief, by Hope Edelman, published by Michael Joseph, focuses on people who are still feeling acute emotional pain years after their loved one has died, and distinguishes it from the grief we immediately feel after a death. Hope, who became a best-seller with her other work Motherless Daughters, which charts her experience of losing her mother at 17, interviewed bereaved people about their 'aftergrief' and distinguishes it from the emotions we immediately feel after a death.