From Erin With Love: Knowledge of Life After Death [Paperback]

Helen M. Fisher (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1996

Even while coping with the loss of her twenty year old daughter, Erin, Helen M. Fisher began to receive amazing affirmation of continuing life. A story of something lost and something gained; a story of a promise kept.

Editorial Reviews

Review

It is completely free of artifact and literary pretension. It tells a story of life, of death, and of hope. It tells it in simple language. It tells it with conviction. "From Erin with Love" is a book for anyone who has ever considered the concept of mortality. -- Statesman Journal, Salem, Oregon, April 14, 1996

From the Publisher

This is a difficult book to categorize but once started an even harder book to put down. The Erin in the title is a college student who contracts Hodgkin's Disease and dies just short of her twenty-first birthday. This true account is chronicled by both Erin, via the journals she kept during her illness, and by her mother. Surprisingly, and in spite of the tragedy around which it revolves, this is not depressing reading. It is a message of hope and a promise of life ever after.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 215 pages
• Publisher: Swallowtail Pub (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964765217
• ISBN-13: 978-0964765214
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,287,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A True Masterpiece that offers a tremendous amount of hope, March 18, 2000

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Michael (East Coast) - See all my reviews

This review is from: From Erin With Love: Knowledge of Life After Death (Paperback)

I have recently lost my mother and this book helped me through what has been the most difficult time of my life to date. Helen's experiences were heartfelt.

I happened to stumble upon the author's site a few months ago and I think there was a reason why I did. Meeting Helen and reading her book has helped me to better deal with my great loss.

Helen's website has been very helpful to me and my family. You can post a letter on her site and she will reply. You will find that she is on a mission to help people going through the heartache of a great loss. Helen has been driven by her daughter, Erin, to write her book and live her life in this way and for this I am thankful to them both.

I too feel that I am being driven to research life after death and that part of my experience was to find Helen's site and read her book.

I highly recommend this wonderful, uplifting piece of art 'From Erin with Love'.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Erin is real and her experience was heart-wrenching., January 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: From Erin With Love: Knowledge of Life After Death (Paperback)

This book was the best of all that I have read of this type. The simple difference between this book and others is that Erin's character was kept intact consistently throughout the book. There was no "cleaning it up" or "sugar-coating". The most natural feeling when you lose a loved-one is to give people only the "PG" version of their life. When this happens, it's hard to see the reality in that person. Cheers to Helen, who had the foresight to keep Erin "real" in order for people to identify with her gripping emotions and life-altering experiences. I could not help but recognize some of my own experiences and feelings with my own mother through both Erin's and Helen's words. How comforting it is to know that there are others who see some of the beauty and excitement during what most people see as "the darkest moments of life". Erin and Helen have done a wonderful job of reaching out and giving people a better understanding of the process of life through death. I encourage everyone I know to read this book (whether they have lost a loved-one or not). It's real and also very thought provoking. Whether you believe in "life after death" or not, Erin's experience will touch your heart, and her courage will give you strength.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars proof that the spirit and love of family lives on, May 21, 1999

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This review is from: From Erin With Love: Knowledge of Life After Death (Paperback)

Never has a story captured my interest and held it like Erin and Helens story. Erin was and is a strong spirit who shows us all that we do not die. This is the story of a young woman who fought the battle for her life and the love with which her mother tells her story makes Erins life and spirit jump from the pages. I honestly could not put it down. This is a story written with pride, dignity and so much love you weep with sadness and then with joy. Thank you Helen, for sharing.